What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.

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.

As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others.

People only seriously consider change when they feel accepted for exactly who they are.

What you are to be, you are now becoming.

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried.

Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench.

I know a little of living and a little of dying. I know how to survive, i have mastered it as a soldier gains mastery of his weapons. Yet i prefer dying, for in dying i learn to live.

On a ship, knowing when to be silent is just as important as knowing when to speak.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

Three blokes go into a pub. Something happens. The outcome was hilarious!

We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.

Keep the bars open-we're coming home.

You can ask me pretty much anything. There'll be things I'll go, 'That feels a little too personal.' But most things I don't have a fear of being asked about.

I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.