When you straddle a thing it takes a long time to explain 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.

The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.

Be therefore not anxious about tomorrow for tomorrow will be anxious for the things of itself.

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

The things you own end up owning you.

People being incredibly rude and playing music incredibly badly and being incredibly obnoxious has always been a teenage sort of thing.

If some of the greats had followed the traditional ways we would be missing so much fine art.

At 'The Village Voice,' there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers.

In America, you don't have to be weak, you have to be strong.

To float like a cloud you have to go to the trouble of becoming one.

I don't get up, get dressed, go out, and think, 'Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.'