When a fellow ain't got much mind, it don't take him long to make it up.

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.

My fangs extended then, automatically, like her voice were a fang charmer, and I followed impulsively, thinking about blood.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.

The world speaks of holy things in the only language it knows, which is worldly language.

Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure.

I think family movies have gotten so rich in this country.

I've done that kind of stuff in records, where you start going back and you want to just redo everything, destroy everything, because you think it all sucks and you can do it better.

3-D movies can make me nauseous.

The universe is but a partial manifestation of your limitless capacity to become.

One very important element for me to make a movie is, it has to be unique and different from any other.