If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.

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.

Your burdens and pains will only be lightened by living ever so fully.

People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper.

Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.

I am they type of person that once I make a decision, I must execute. Maybe I am a perfectionist in this way.

I've been audited for many, many years in a row, which I think is unfair, but that's the way it is.

Mine is the night, with all her stars.

Tens of millions of Americans who neither know or understand the actual arguments for, or even against, evolution, march in the Army of the Night with their Bibles held high

I hit your thigh!” “Oh, please. A man doesn’t need that long to recover from a knee to the thigh.

Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.

A celebrated north country apostle, who, after Calvin had damned ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind, had contrived a scheme for damning ninety-nine in a hundred of the followers of Calvin.