There ain't nothing but one thing wrong with every one of us and that's selfishness.

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.

Giving up drinking for life is easy.I've done it loads of times.

Sometimes you have to deprive someone of the pleasure of being with you so that they can realize how much they need you in their lives...

Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.

Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.

Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.

No one ever gets too big to make mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his mistakes, because he rises right out of them and passes beyond them.

I tend to integrate poet and scholar is by ironizing the scholarship. My hope is to disturb that space between the two so they can coexist in a kind of mutual uncertainty.

It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.

I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self.