Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

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.

Believe in magic. Believe in the impossible

a hundred failures mean a thousand successes

Persephone had it right.If you must go, might as welltake all of spring with you—

I'm a citizen of the republic of empathy.

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual,' - Magnus Bane

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

It is our duty to concentrate all our influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and unpopular that which is unsound.

One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth