Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics.

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.

The answer to all questions of human society is in the lessons of human history, which are revealed in the Bible.

Love, love, love, says Percy.And hurry as fast as you canalong the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust.Then, go to sleep.Give up your body heat, your beating heart.Then, trust.

I get up in the morning, look around, arrange and rearrange things, and imagine how I might like them to look. Why doesn't everybody?

I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.

Some of the most exciting space education in the country is not coming out of Washington or New York or California or even Texas. It's coming from a place in Kansas called the Cosmosphere.

Get money first; virtue comes after.

We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.

You are never too young to lead.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

If you absolutely love it more than anything in the world, don't give up. You gotta keep working hard because it's a lot tougher than it looks.