If you don't pay attention to the things that have your attention, you'll give them more attention than they deserve.

My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard

Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.

Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.

Once a week, do a thorough review of all your projects in as much detail as you need to. If you do, your systems will work. If you don't, no system will work.

Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.

You can do anything, but not everything.

Small things done consistently, in strategic places, create major impact.

Most people move actually into high performance in a crisis because that creates the kind of focus that creates high performance.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.

The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.

I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs.

Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them.

It's not the size of the house. It's how much love is inside.

Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.

What happens outwardly in your life is not as important as what happens inside you. Your circumstances are temporary, but your character will last forever.