We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it

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.

Follow the trace of timeuntil the startcollapses with the endin the space of the heart.

You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.

Death walks among us

Four hundred years of losing out on the girl of my dreams isn't sitting very well with me these days.

I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.

When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

When I left New York, after getting fired from Metallica, all I remember is that I wanted blood. Theirs.

The fingers and toes and beating hearts that we can see on an unborn child's ultrasound come with something that we cannot see: a soul

Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.