Do what is important, not what is urgent.

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.

Love is the fruit of a sacred-soul.

Yes, well, people are very good at destroying things, good things.

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

You can't beat a good sonnet, and you can write a sonnet without being married to the damned thing.

For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?

Millions of people are afraid of the past, the future, old age, insanity and death. But fear is a thought in your mind. This means that you are afraid of your own thoughts.

After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one’s demon.

There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark - ask any player about when they've had a bad game, it's still in there somewhere in the back of your mind.

Asking a sociologist to solve a problem is like prescribing an enema for diarrhea.

We are all descended from monsters.