This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

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 only thing I know about me is that it is you.

Follow your dreams with determination and conviction until they become true.

If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

For entrepreneurs, ignorance is not bliss. It's fatal. It's costly. And it's for losers. You either get organized, or get crushed.

The best that we can hope for in this life is that we shall not have sons and grandsons of whom we need to be ashamed.

I sometimes say I am in a relationship with boxing.

I think that people get experiences, and out of those experiences come meaning and ideas. It's like watching a rose bush grow.