Even if you're on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there.

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.

You don’t need to be an executive owner of a multi-billion international company to show that you are a leader

History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.

I have enjoyed the years enormously in Cleveland and especially in Baltimore

There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.

If you're a performer, people tend to be quite positive about you or they have no opinion.

The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.

The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in somebody else's.

Dignity and love were never yet boon companions.

I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.

During the '80s I wrote Memoirs from the Women's Prison. This is one of my most important books. It came out in Arabic in '83. About my experience in prison.