I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines.

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.

As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others.

People only seriously consider change when they feel accepted for exactly who they are.

What you are to be, you are now becoming.

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.

i took it off.i did not want to carry it with me anymore.

Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.

My son is my son till he have got him a wife But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred.

There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.

If your kid comes out of the bedroom and says he just shut down the government, it seems to me he should at least have an outfit for that.

We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women.

Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman?