The Senate just sits and waits till they find out what the president wants, so they know how to vote against him.

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.

The Tanzanian told her that all fiction was therapy, some sort of therapy, no matter what anybody said.

I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.

There is no effort in time wasted by remembering the truth. A lie requires an effort of life and wasted time to remember because one lie tends to become a lifestyle that destroys.

Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.

I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.

I'd wanted to be [an actress] all my life.

I was too lazy to read, and I was even too lazy to imagine scenarios drawn up by the pictures. They just suggested a flavor to me. I swallowed them whole, like hosts. It was a form of worship.

A girl is grown up when she stops counting on her fingers and starts counting on her legs.

When you do 10 interviews in one day, and 10 different sources want to talk to you, that means you're doing good. I think about that every day.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.