Dating is a give and take. If you only see it as "Taking," you are not getting it.

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word 'no.' Love respects 'no,' control does not.

When you encourage someone, it literally changes their brain chemistry to be able to perform... sends fuel to the brain.

The human heart will seek to be known, understood, and connected with above all else. If you do not connect, the ones you care about will find someone who will.

In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.

Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.

The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.

Whatever's happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don't treat it like it's the whole story. Keep writing the story.

Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.

Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

The real world—where I probably could never be happy, and never get anywhere.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

When I started in my career, my sister was very sick so I play for her because we didn't have money.

One of my dogs is in the movie Beethoven's 2nd.

Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.

The most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work he imposes upon himself, or civilization has imposed upon him. All nature loafs, while man alone works for a living.

Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.

I love good comedy. I don't like bad comedy.

I'm also good at meditation. It involves doing nothing and everything at the same time.

Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.