You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.

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.

Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)

She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.

It is when life pushes you down that you learn to get up and go higher.

It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.

Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.

She doesn’t think she’s worthy to live. But she doesn’t realize, she is life.

Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.

I think big! I choose to help thousands and thousands of people!

I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.