The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

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 stony silence of death, trapped by the original gravity of our sins, and the perpetuity of a long, leisurely yawn, a world where blood and bone no longer matter.

Error itself may be happy chance.

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.

When we speak quietly one to another things somehow get settled.

Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones.

The fool learns by suffering.

There was a huge difference between dislike and disregard.

It's clear all the way through history that practices are primary and beliefs are secondary.

When I'm in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I'm in a movie.

You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side...The Bending forward and backward of the rowers...