I remember when being liberal meant being generous with your own money.

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.

When God asks a question, it is always rhetorical.

Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between past genius and present aspiration in which the price is literary survival or canonical inclusion.

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

When you're drunk, you always think you're not. If you even drink at all don't get behind the wheel.

A powerful motivation for believing God in our present is intentionally remembering how He's worked in our past.

You're as good as the people you're with.

What is liberty? The measure of dignity.

I never learned to read music.

I sometimes get caught up in the big goals...That aren't really the ultimate goal, which is to be happy for what you have.

Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.