Building and repairing relationships are long-term investments.

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.

Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football.

We are taught to want a thing. We are taught that having that thing will make us happy. We are taught that having it immediately is the answer. We are taught a corrupted version of success. And love.

The exhausting effort to control time by altering the effects of age doesn't bring happiness

The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while, as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the next day promised.

I don't like walking in the street and seeing 30,000 copies of myself.

I was never a cokehead or anything like that. I always despised that drug. I thought it was a waste of time, pointless.

For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

It's a combination of yes - making a movie about the characters - and then, also, budget.