In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

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.

See yourself what you would like to be known for rather than your current position.

Red of the Dawn Is it turning a fainter red? so be it, but when shall we lay The ghost of the Brute that is walking and hammering us yet and be free?

There is one allegiance that unites us all, and that is to America.

In the mind's eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.

All the time it's a changing And all the dreamers are waking.

If the view is very beautiful, do not sit and watch; go to the view, be in the view!

Often one is more attached to the journey than to the discovery... because the journey happens in the mind... the discovery happens in the heart.

I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.