We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.

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.

Despair and disappointment are the parent of countless inspired, inspiring, triumphant creations

World gives everything to those who don’t need it. (Matthew Effect). More you have it, more they give it to you

Who knows what the hell a government is or what the hell a government does.

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

I'm embracing many different things, but it's all feel-good.

Your will cannot always choose the path; very often the route is determined by chance or by the will of others.

Preceding accomplishment must be desire. Thy desires must be strong and definite.

Microsoft's philosophy is to get it out there and fix it later. Steve [Jobs] would never do that. He doesn't get anything out there until it is perfected.

For the eight years I was president I never let my dream of a nuclear-free world fade from my mind.