When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

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.

Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.

While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare

Most copywriters are like engines. They take a while to warm up to get to the point.

Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.

Women are not forgiven for aging.

Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it.

History will surely judge us harshly if we do not respond with all the energy and resources that we can bring to bear in the fight against HIV/AIDS

On second thought, I think I am more crazy than my goat.

There is something so arbitrary about prizes.

Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.