people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.

Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.

Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.

When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).

Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

It comes from within.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

Know the One - the Self, and you'll know the All.

Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'

As long as Im getting waves and having fun, the results tend to take care of themselves.

Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.

I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.

A big producer can survive price fluctuations on the world market. A small farmer can't.

[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.

Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.