Dr.

Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.

Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes ... they're just friends waiting to be made.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy.

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things First, a dissatisfaction with self-a felt void or need second, a decision to change-to fill the void or need and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change-the willful act of making the change Doing Something.

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

The last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

What is to give light must endure burning.

Everything can be taken from a man but the last of human freedoms, the right to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances--the right to choose one's own way.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how.'

First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you.

It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.

If you've got to resist, you're chances of being hurt are less the more lethal your weapon. If that were my wife, would I want her to have a .38 Special in her hand Yeah.

Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world a prescription often given, too rarely taken.

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

Six essential qualities that are the key to success Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.

We never know how far reaching something we may think, say, or do today will effect the lives of millions tomorrow.

Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

Good friends are good for your health.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.

We can be negative and cynical or we can be charged and hot wired to find a way through it, over it, around it under it.

When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

The people and circumstances around me do not MAKE me what I am, they REVEAL who I am.

Make decisions from the strong part of you, not the weak.

Situations reveal who we are, they don't create who we are.

Never do anything that you aren't prepared to face the true consequences of.

Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle--he defeated the fear of trying.

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary impossible.

You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.

Build a dream and the dream will build you.

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Impossible situations can become possible miracles.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.

Most people who succeed n the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent.

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Always have some project under way . . . an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a smaller unit of time.

God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives--DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.

Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so relunctant to change It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.

It is important to live each day with a positive perspective. It is not wise to pretend problems do not exist, but it is wise to look beyond the problem to the possibilities that are in it. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, 'He's so big, we can never kill him.' But David looked at the same giant and thought, 'He's so big, I can't miss him.'

The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have arrived believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid.

In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self-examination. It is forgivable to make mistakes, but to stand fast behind a wall of self-righteousness and make the same mistake twice is not forgivable.

He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.

Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.