When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.

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.

Every county has its sacred culture.

I'm not the protagonist of a novel or anything...I'm just a normal college student who likes to read...But...If I were to write a book with me as the main character...It would be......A tragedy.

How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?

When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.

For too long, Democrats have been telling people what they want to hear. I'm going to tell you what I believe.

Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.

We almost need to cultivate - I hate to sound New Age-y - but to cultivate a positive bias, and really work to focus on those things and notice those things that are wonderful and uplifting.

I want someone to say, "I love you and that's all I really know." That's the girly girl in me.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

I left Earth three times and found no other place to go. Please take care of Spaceship Earth.