John Powell

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.

Communication works for those who work at it.

Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard.

Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.

Life is something like a remarkable, exciting puzzle. It comes piece by piece in packages marked days.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.

The only love worthy of a name is unconditional.

We cannot psychologize the grace of God. Gods actions are outside and above our human sciences.

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.