Creating a warm, caring, supportive, encouraging environment is probably the most important thing you can do for your family.

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.

Your perspective determines your experiences, attitude and the quality of your life.

I only met Joan Rivers once. But when she passed away, it felt like a part of me went away, too.

The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.

Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies

Mama says it's okay to be on the quiet side—if quiet means you're listening, watching, taking it all in.

Smiles like that should be against the law. Considering what they do to a girl.

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own.

The sun is always shining someplace.

I love underdogs, people who have achieved extraordinary things against the odds.

They said I was a valued customer. Now they send me hate mail.