What you are to be, you are now becoming.

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.

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

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

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

A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could have only one book, what would it be? I always say, "How to Build a Boat.

If someone corrects you, and you feel offended, then you have an ego problem.

There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.

Nothing says “i came here to win” like jazz hands

The worse the coming future, the more it should motivate its opponents.

I guess I'll fade off into bolivian

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

I believe I may so, looking into my own heart, and speaking as in the presence of God, that I have never know one moment of bitterness or resentment.

With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.

Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.