The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

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.

Hidup hanya menunda kekalahan.

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.

When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

There can be no separation in your organization. You win as a team, you lose as a team.

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.

Take me home, he said silently to Graff. In my dream you said you loved me. Take me home

I've got many, many demons that affect me on many, many levels.

We can grow good wheat and make good bread only if we understand that we do not live by bread alone.