This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

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.

You can produce as many products as you want in life if you just apply the principle of time conversion.

In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.

Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too.

I seem to think that anything worth having in life has to be painful to attain.

Not all civil servants admire strong political leadership. But if you want to change things for the better you need strong political leadership.

It's one thing to be certain, but you can be certain and you can be wrong.

I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.

A fear is just a lie that you've rehearsed so many times you believe it's true.