The trouble with Democrats is that they all want to run for President

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 goal of our lives should be nothing less that becoming so familiar with the "mind of Christ" that we could write Jesus' speeches.

What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

Hitting the kid with the ball might get you the ball, but it won't get you anyone to throw it to.

I was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music.

An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.

I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

I’m vain because I’m imperfect.

I don't see that [Richard] Dawkins' basic account of evolution is incompatible with God's having designed it.