If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow

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.

He believed in his own decency with all his heart. So it was with every true monster, Vic supposed.

The Occident has never found it easy to grasp the strange netherworld of spirits that followers of Islam universally believe exist in a realm overlaid our own.

...true love is my religion...

It's the steady constant driving to the goal for which you're striving not the speed with which you travel that will make your victory sure.

If you took half of something and continued to take half of that half and so on, you would never reach an end.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others

Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case.

Sometimes, when you're close to someone, you miss things. Other people can see them, but you can't.

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.