I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments.

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.

Awareness is Brahman. The absolute cosmic consciousness. When you are aware, you are connected with Brahman.

You can know an animal - or a person, for that matter - in an instant, really, though your understanding can go on unfolding for years.

You can make a day of any size.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

I'm one of the few dumb Jewish doctors.

The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.

There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.

You know what happens when you don't take a risk? Nothing.

My passion is kids, more than just kids is underprivileged kids and orphans.

Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.