There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs

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.

that's what kills a man: lack of change.

Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing.

By the Angel, it just crushed Sophocles," noted Will. "Has no one respect for the classics these days?

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become.

Should you really open your eyes and see, you would behold your image in all images. And should you open your ears and listen, you would hear your own voice in all voices.

I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.

I knew his life deserved a chance/But everybody told me to be smart/Look at your career they said/Lauren, baby use your head/But instead I chose to use my heart.

Truly life is wasted on the living.

I definitely go on gut instinct but it has always had the back up of research and information.