The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?

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 destiny of any country is in the hands of the people who know God

The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain.

Submission is not in the bowing of heads or knees but in the humbling of your whole being (spirit, soul and body)

By unspoken agreement, we all picked an invisible line in the cracked asphalt and toed it.

Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians.

Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.

The American Dream has always focused on building a better life for yourself and your family, striving for success, and even fleeing from religious prosecution.

For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.

I believe everything is energy. I believe that the meal you serve yourself, you prepare, is energy. And if you serve it to your family, it's your gift of energy to them.

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.