What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

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.

It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

Absence of occupation is not rest A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.

England? England is in London right?

Love: A term which has no meaning if defined.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

I don't want someone coming in and passing judgment on my life.

If you incline towards God the passions that enslaves you will be rendered powerless.

Fear not to be nothing that thou mayst be all.

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.