I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.

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.

Love: the great connector. Stay Connected

We all need to have dreams. The question is, does the dream control you or do you control the dream?

When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.

For whatever time I have to live, I intend to enjoy myself." - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live.

The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.

Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.

Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important.

The object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai, but to make the bonsai look like a tree.

Gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hat pin.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.