Politicians are dumb, but they can count to 50% plus one.

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.

It's a weapon, I understand?""In the wrong hands, all tools are weapons. In the right hands, everything is a weapon, or nothing is.

One thing the Devil fears the most is the Church that obeys and goes not just sits and talks.

With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.

I think referendums are fantastic as long as the question is phrased in a way which is not meant to deliberately confuse or confound people.

Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie.

I felt like I was in the best photography school in the world - I had Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn teach me.

Usually, a well thought answer makes an aggressor think twice.

I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

It's much more fun to be the exception, not the rule

So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers.