Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.

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.

It is the most fundamental thing I know about being alive: Everything that lasts is invention followed by tenacious faith.

He walked hesitantly toward her and then wrapped his arms around her in a gentle hug.“You just looked like you needed one, ” he said.

Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?

While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer.

It takes a while to tell stories, I think it's because I was drunk for three years.

If there is one thing I have learned during my years as a professional, it is that the only thing constant about golf is its inconstancy.

The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

Republics have a longer life and enjoy better fortune than principalities, because they can profit by their greater internal diversity. They are the better able to meet emergencies.

People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible