If stupidity got us into this, why can't stupidity get us out?

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.

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.

See, ya are what ya are in this world. That's either one of two things: Either you're somebody, or you ain't nobody.

Read about the history of the place that we live in and stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children

Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?

I love forms beyond my own, and regret the borders between us

Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.

It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.

Laws and machines are shaped to fit the classes.

Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three.