The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.

Your behavior reflects your actual purposes.

Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.

If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing.

What people resist is not change per se, but loss.

Your silence creates a vacuum for others to fill The key is to stay present and keep listening. The silence of holding steady is different from the silence of holding back.

Where will we spend eternity—with God in that place of endless joy the Bible calls heaven, or apart from Him in that place of endless despair the Bible calls hell?

Dreams are more personal. We tend to only dream about issues that impact us directly: our careers, our marriage, our children, our family and friends.

I'm a big lover of fish. Cooking fish is so much more difficult than cooking protein meats, because there are no temperatures in the medium, rare, well done cooking a stunning sea bass or a scallop.

I was sitting cross-legged in bed, trying without success to pretend I'd misunderstood the image I'd glimpsed. Yeah, right. Because Vlad had been between my legs looking for a set of keys he'd lost.

We shouldn't require our politicians to be movie stars. Then again, we're all influenced by charisma. It's hard not to be. We all collectively fall for it.

I really like to write, so I can just relax and think about things and realize things and then try to express it on my computer.

Imagine the choices you'd make if you had no fear-of falling, of losing, of being alone, of disapproval.

People have been educated to expect answers, even before the questions come along. It's the TV principle. You offer three possible answers before the questions come to relax and calm the audience.

When people are still getting pleasure from something that you did 30 years ago, it makes you feel good. I always say it makes an old man happy.

There are a million examples of not feeling the jazz, but using the jazz.