There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.

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.

A torpid heart in agony needs a pen to bleed

When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

The Red Cross irritated Ugwu

Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice

We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.

Programming is much much harder than doing mathematics.

In rowing as in life, there are competitors and there are racers. The competitor works hard and rows to his limit. The racer does not think of limits, only the race.

God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.

What matters to us, the judgment of men? What have we to doubt, since we are pure before life?

I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.