So the question rises: How much liberty can you get away with? Well, you get no more liberty than you give!

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.

I am a preacher. I'm involved in many other things, but, mainly, I preach. And I love it!

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

You didn't quit skateboarding because you got old, you got old because you quit skateboarding.

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

Writers, unlike most people, tell their best lies when they are alone.

Tabouli is the best salad, but still, you don't win friends with salad

We can do only what we think we can do. We can be only what we think we can be. We can have only what we think we can have. What we do, what we are, what we have, all depend upon what we think.

It's a lot of working out, you know, and you don't get to eat all the things you wanna eat.

It's very important to be in your child's life and know what's going on and be there with them.