Work to make a living; serve to make a life.

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.

Manage your relationships. Great relationships may not be profitable, but bad ones always result in losses.

Time takes it all in the end...

If it’s going to be two against one, make sure you aren’t the one.

Great entrepreneurial DNA is comprised of leadership, technological vision, frugality, and the desire to succeed.

If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics.

No future life could heal the degradation of having been a woman. Religion in the world had nothing but insults for women.

War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.

She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul.

You have to create tension between reality and aspiration

Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.