Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.

When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.

Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning

We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Crime, like war, is an aberration of creation.

Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.

Best trust the happy moments. ... The days that make us happy make us wise.

Ladies love a soppy lyric. There's a real winner in 'Carry You Home.'

Never give up and always believe in yourself.

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

I don't do chat-up lines. Girls often tell me I'm cheeky. Being cheeky seems to work OK for me.

A woman shaking in fear from demons in her mind, and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself, crying softly in the corner, his face in his hands.

Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.