A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.

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.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

When you get down on your knees in front of me it won’t be out of gratitude. It’ll be because you want to be there.”--Ciaran Ross, Killer Curves

The best gift that you can give to your favourite person is to lead him or her to God.

If you would bee at ease, all the world is not.

There are two things in the world that can never get together- religion & common sense.

What we need is a generation of peace.

The red carpet is really the only thing that makes me nervous.

We hated Cleveland growing up. There's a lot of people in Cleveland we still hate to this day.

If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.

I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.