Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

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.

Remember, life is a bit tough most of the time.Also remember, if it was easy it would be boring.

The art of happy-making begins when we find our happiness within instead of without.

What will I do when you're gone?" said Alasdair, with a faltering voice.Bryeison placed a hand on his shoulder and said, with raging tranquility, "Do what is good and what is right.

Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.

May you have a strong foundation when the winds of change shift...and may you be forever young.

I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.

I believe in equal rights for all people.

I sincerely believe that everything - everything - is grace, and you have to stick around long enough to see it through. I'm a very optimistic person.

It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity.