If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.

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.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

A democracy of mean and ignorant people is just as scary as any other horrible form of government.

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

Perhaps only when people can enjoy their differences as a resource of cultural enrichment do they become truly civilized.

I fight authority and authority always wins.

The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he hadnt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because hed thought surely the first must have been a mistake.

Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.

...there's no rule book or game plan when it comes to the grim realities of our lives.

Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the most improper to defend us.