A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.

Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It seems only right. 'Tom, I'd like you to meet the girl of my dreams, Tragedy.' These days, Trajedi.

Faith keeps our ships moving, while empathy and the memories of our experiences lead to wisdom.

Creativity leads others to where I lead you, to an unseen beauty, so ineffable its very beauty destroys itself...

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

There is nothing scarier than being ‘the designer of the moment,’ because the moment ends.

Historically, the best way to convert liberals is to have them move out of their parents' home, get a job, and start paying taxes.

If you've given the greatest effort that you can expect of yourself, you always get what you deserve.

We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use.

If you push too much for somebody that everyone knows is your friend, and that you've worked with before, it can backfire.

Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.