Compliance does not foster innovation, trust does. You can't sustain long-term innovation, for example, in a climate of distrust.

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.

It's not enough merely to believe there is a God. You must believe in the God who is there.

Human strength fails, but the divinity within strengthen the soul.

Old age is second childhood.

Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'

At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards.

Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything.

Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold their heads among human beings?