Don't be a damned ammunition wagon. Be a rifle!

What you are to be, you are now becoming.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines.

People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.

It's an awful risky thing to live

I have come to think that one of the most satisfying experiences I know — and also one of the most growth-promoting experiences for the other person — is just fully to appreciate this individual in the same way that I appreciate a sunset.