Distinguish between the person and the behavior or performance.

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.

All pro athletes are bilingual. They speak English and profanity.

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point.

An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.

Everybody loves things that sparkle.

Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.

Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?