The more ignorant you are, the quicker you fight.

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 hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

De La Soul, from the soul, black medallions, no gold.

The true smoker abstains from imitating Vesuvius.

The power of the resurrection means that nothing but the tomb is meant to be empty.

It has always seemed to me a great honor to be called an Irish poet. I don't think I will ever lose that, but it's also a great honor to be a woman poet. I put those things together.

A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.

Everything degenerates in the hands of man.

There's something so wonderful about being an actor in New York.

I think we're inevitably going to be depressed when we focus the major part of our energy and attention on something that doesn't give us meaning, only material things.

If there's anything disgusting about the movie business, it's the whoredom of my peers.