Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people.

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.

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece

Mirrors are perpetually deceitful. They lie and steal your true self. They reveal only what your mind believes it sees

The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.

The foundation of confidence in virtually every field is preparation.

My morals went when the president got oral.

What looks like a failure teaches us what not to do, what does not work. We have lessons to learn from our experiences.

When I was a little girl, rocking my little dolls, I remember thinking I would be the world's best mom, and so far I've done it.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

I've practiced meditation most of my life. It's better than lying around doing nothing.