The US is safest when Congress is in recess.

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.

There are many kinds of truth: societal truths, religious truths, fundamental truths, scientific truths, and universal truths. Your truth should be what you can trust with your heart.

If we had the chance to live forever, life would lose its charm for something better.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

I don't look at Twitter between events because it's a distraction but I will ring my fiance and parents to let them know how it's going.

When you love what you do, you can work all the time.

An industrial system predicated on the delusion of limitless expansion will, in time, consume its own basis of support.

You know I hate watching myself on TV, I know a lot of actors say that, but it's true for me.

I thought it was irrelevant to talk about what a wonderful thing poetry was if you didn't teach people to read.

A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.

The fool inherits, but the wise must get.