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

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.

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.

Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.

Regret is what you should fear the most. If something is going to keep you awake at night, let it be the fear of not following your dream.

You never get it figured out. You just keep playing.

I'm so proud of who I am and where I come from and who my father is.

An artist is someone with the gift to light up a dark room.

The gift of sight to see beyond The darker clouds of now!

Leave every place you go, everything you touch, a little better for your having been there.

Don’t waste talent. No matter what you do, don’t waste talent.

The minute you hesitate you are in trouble.

Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters is the question of land.