I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'

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.

Only the people who are rooted in the house of God will thrive, prosper, become rich and still have joy in every situation

...this is how politics is played. With fakery and false smiles and butcher knives to the back.

My will to live completely overcame my desire to win

I sort of like writing about weird characters, I guess.

In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.

O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.

Physically you are identical with and inseparable from the cosmic material substance, and socially you are inseparable from the large mass of humanity.

If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.

The older I get, the more I appreciate what came before.

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.