I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian. That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday.

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 the ultimate opportunity of a lifetime to try to understand the dreams and desires of a blooming flower.

The past has been there all along, reminding us: This time--maybe, hopefully, against all odds, we will get it right.

Please, hate me if you have to, never speak to me again, but don't settle for someone you don't love because I hurt you

It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.

No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.

Don’t get depressed about not being where you want to be. This nagging feeling of anxiety is actually called ambition. Ambition is your friend.

Extremists are not going to disappear.

I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.

Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.

For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase.