The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid.

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.

Inner peace is the sacred-strength of peaceful existence.

For the most part, the best opportunities now lie where your competitors have yet to establish themselves, not where they're already entrenched. Microsoft is struggling to adapt to that new reality.

If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.

As uncomfortable as it might be, I refuse to let the comfort of being agreed with suffocate my opinions.

There is more evil than good when we preach the miracle centered gospel instead of the kingdom gospel.

Nothing has more words and performance than rap music.

Market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.

We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.