When 'Being Rushed' is the problem . . . Rushing is never the solution.

Courage isn't the absence of fear, but a decision that what we want is more important than what we are afraid of.

Selfish is caring for ourselves at others' expense ... Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.

The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.

Until we become clear about our own worth and value, we will forever be searching for it in the eyes of others.

The way to encourage people to be accountable is to engage the responsible, accountable, trustworthy part of their brain.

When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.

Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.

As long as we define stress as how some person or situation is making us feel, we will have to change the world around us to find peace of mind.

Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.

Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

We are now moving towards complete collectivism or socialism, a system under which everybody is enslaved to everybody.

Get maximum effect from minimum effort.

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

Most of my guitars have been instruments that look cool. I'm not picky. I never think, 'Oh, this neck isn't made of ebony,' or, 'These strings don't feel correct.' It doesn't matter too much.

If people thought about food more like how we think about the environment, a lot of people would be eating differently and the whole system would look a lot different.

Even though you're in charge you're not completely in ownership. You know, the audience takes a huge ownership of your show.

He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.

Alix [ MacKenzie] had stopped teaching because we had a child and she stayed home to take care of the baby, and I taught.