You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.

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.

We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them.

With an open mind, you are the imagination of universal consciousness and the creation of the subconscious mind that wanders throughout the universe.

I think track records are very important. If you start early trying to have a perfect one in some simple thing like honesty, you're well on your way to success in this world.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

The most important person on this earth is you. What are you doing to help the most important person in this world: you? To live right, you have to exercise, have goals and challenges.

Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes.

Keep a good table and attend to the ladies.

One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand.

This world is not for the poor, nor the next for the unkind.

The 60s had completely changed how people conceived of their lives and their habits and their identities.