If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.

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.

The point, ' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.

Parenting is a giant responsibility forever, so we need to learn how to drop the guilt and go easy on ourselves when we mess up.

If people think honoring pastors means doing everything they say, why don't they honor Jesus the same way?

Believe in yourself, Follow your dreams, and all things are possible!

Perestroika is nothing but a spectacle organized from above.

Our blight is ide­olo­gies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!

The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams.

We need to put the security back in the National Security Agency. We can't have the national surveillance agency.

I find people attractive for more subtle reasons than just the way they look.

There's this cliché of always falling in love with the latest song, and I'm kind of like that.