The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona.

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.

Poetry is life distilled.

Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises?

For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

It is blasphemous rebellion against God thatmarks the Antichrist as the final and logical expression of humanism.

History records endless struggles to enlarge those realms, inspiring ones; it also records painful reversals and setbacks.

Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent.

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

I knew something was wrong with the economy when the shampoo girl at my salon closed on a six bedroom house.

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