People only seriously consider change when they feel accepted for exactly who they are.

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.

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

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

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

The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others.

What you are to be, you are now becoming.

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.

It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried.

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, that a new direction is the only direction.

There weren't too many books featuring other cultures and countries when I was growing up as an immigrant kid here in the States.

And cooking is about balance and harmony.

Accident is simply unforeseen order.

My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.

We should still pray. We have no other authority but to pray.

The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.

By means of the sign, man frees himself from the here and now for abstraction.