There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing.

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.

In a cool solitude of treesWhere leaves and birds a music spin, Mind that was weary is at ease, New rhythms in the soul begin.

Just because we're going to be in different worlds doesn't mean we've left each other - Julie Jaynes

When you really get technique... there is no strength that will stop you.

The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.

Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.

In order to be one of the greats, you've got to study the greats.

If anything, when you're in your late 20s, early 30s, and then mid-30s, you're getting less attractive.

I like seeing someone that can sing jazz and then flip over and sing a pop song and then sing a rock song.