Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to.

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.

Without the author there is nothing.

The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.

Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem.

Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.

One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don't know what they want. They just know when they see it.

The universe is just a big Xerox machine. It simply produces copies of your thoughts.

Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?

I had one or two steady girlfriends in high school, but then in college, it was three, four... I went crazy. At one point I had three separate girlfriends, running around mad.

Build your skills, not your resume.

I can't count the number of people I've talked to over the course of my career who have said to me that the thing that they most regret is the one time they did something just for the money.