When you put down the good things you ought to have done and leave out the bad things you did do - well that's memoirs.

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.

If you don't know who you truly are, you'll never know what you really want.

Time throws you out of its dimensionless planar like a boomerang. It unites with you again in death.

The heart cannot embrace what the mind does not accept.

I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.

Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open.

Marriage provides the solace of worked-on friendship and the joy of being known profoundly.

Four things will shame the students of knowledge: Criticizing people, praising themselves, not teaching the knowledge,and not practicing what they know.

I love fashion, I'm actually a pretty talented seamstress, so I can make stuff for myself, but that's really time-consuming.

o this idea that we fail to stop these things because there's not awareness about them, or that we need better early warning information, I'm increasingly skeptical of.

When you nag, you become the problem, he deals with it by turning you out, but when you don't nag, he deals with the problem.