The man who never makes a mistake must get tired of doing nothing.

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.

In a valley betwixt two hills there I stood perfectly still. In this stance I did find the most beautiful secrets of my mind

James Smith argues that liturgies “are compressed, performed narratives that recruit the imagination through the body.

Author describes one monarch's impressive table but conveys a contemporary's observation, "the weightiest thing at dinner was the conversation".

My doctor gave me six months to live but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.

In business, you have to be strong. If you are weak, people are going to take advantage.

Beware not the enemy from 'without' but the enemy from 'within'.

I love making Italian food. And coconut chicken.

Your thoughts create your reality. Your mind is more powerful than you know.

And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

Since I was small, when I was in school, I was a business girl. I would buy things to sell, gums for three cents, things like that.