I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.

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.

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

Their plan had been very simple: to stay together for the rest of their lives.

Being interesting has been replaced by being identifiable.

Making a wish is like saying, 'I can't deal with anything, I give up, somebody bigger come along and solve it all instead.

You cannot change what you refuse to confront.

Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.

I do not know whether this universe has an emperor; all I know is that this empire is in chaos; universal order is a big delusion.

We’re born alone and we die alone, I accept that. But why, God, do we have to be alone in the middle?

I climbed on the rowing ergometer, and started to pull - losing myself in the rhythm of sweat and pain.