We are here just for a spell and then pass on. So get a few laughs and do the best you can. Live your life so that whenever you lose it, you are ahead.

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.

There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.

Steve needed to be careful here. He'd read mid-twentieth-century science fiction so he knew that once you started switching realities you ran into problems with nested levels of existence.

Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.

I believe if everyone fulfilled their deepest life purpose, the world would work perfectly.

The Eucharist is a never-ending sacrifice. It is the Sacrament of love, the supreme love, the act of love.

But magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses.

If it's unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature

Sometimes the stereotypes that a lot of people have are of black men in jail or who don't take care of their kids, so I think it's always important to have that.

Steady, patient, persevering thinking will generally surmount every obstacle in search of truth.

Character deaths in and of itself should never be done for shock.