I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.

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.

To live a worthy life, just love. Love is the essence of life and it makes the life worthwhile.

Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.

A Jack Russell terrier? My god. He'll burn you up. They never stop. A German shepherd, you can only go so many miles.

The tongue never slips – remember this always. What goes on within the mind comes invariably on the tongue.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's not being noticed.

Many an ancient lord's last words have been, 'You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh.'

In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.

Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.