People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

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.

In the darkness, be the light.

Excited. In a good way. I've been training my whole life for this.

I do want to go out on top, as a winner

I don't think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it.

The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life

I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.

It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual weakness, the shallowness of our convictions.

It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.

everyone knows how to love because we are all born with that gift.

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.