If the big rocks don't go in first, they aren't going to fit in later.

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.

There's never a beginning for eternity.

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

The universe is a put-up job.

Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering.

We regret mistakes were made.

The sole aim of journalism should be service.

Tragedy plus time equals humor.

The thing is, I'm not a prolific songwriter.

There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.

Money cannot buy the fuel of love but is excellent kindling.