Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.

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.

When you say that something is impossible, you have made it impossible.

My random acts of violence weren't random. They were premeditated.

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets abstract by noon.

I know I'm not very popular on Long Island. I don't know who's less popular, me or Joey Buttafuoco.

I'll watch the kids play, have a big steak with my friends, stay in a nice hotel, sign a lot of autographs, then go back to Vegas and tell my alumni how tough recruiting is.

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.

True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.

If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away.

Crying was like pissing everything out on the ground.