There is nothing fairer than workmen having unions of their mutual benefit.

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.

Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun to have lived light in the spring to have loved to have thought to have done?

I lost my partner [Anselmo Feleppa] to HIV then it took about three years to grieve; then after that I lost my mother. I felt almost like I was cursed.

Variety is the spice of love.

Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element.

Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers.

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

I think I'm a character actress in a leading lady's body, but the industry doesn't really see me that way.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

what is the worst pain? To me, it's always the pain that is present.

My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.