You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

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.

Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

You can only overcome a negative attitude with a positive attitude.

Women’s history is the primary tool for women’s emancipation.

There’s no fool​like an illiterate fool.

The less evidence we have for what we believe is certain, the more violently we defend beliefs against those who don't agree.

There are many world leaders who are worse than [Donald] Trump.They don't just talk about violence, they practice it on an extreme scale. And we welcome them to our country.

Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs?

The cruelest thing, hope, the way it strings you along, the way it makes you believe.

Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.

But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord." "It might to keep it open.