The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

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 royal power is the grace to act right.

The best advice you can give anyone consists of one word only, given at precisely the right moment.

I've learned, that not all worth is measured by price. I've found so many gems that didn't cost me much!

It was a texture. The blackness was so intense.

The Spanish ladies of the New World are madly addicted to chocolate, to such a point that, not content to drink it several times each day, they even have it served to them in church.

Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present.

The devil makes small sins seem smaller in our eyes, for otherwise he can't lead us to greater evil.

I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body, skins and moles and old scars, secret and public hair, crooked toes. I support those who have done nothing large.

It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us.

Actors make choices for different reasons.