If you focus on principles, you empower everyone who understands those principles to act without constant monitoring, evaluating, correcting, or controlling.

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.

Freedom cannot be labeled nor won nor envied. Only when one doesn't realize what freedom is, is one truly free.

Great music is a great remedy for depression, but you have to drink it in with your heart and mind.

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

This democracy thing, or Demoxie, whatever it is, good god. Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes.

When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.

Pity is a benign form of abuse.

Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.

It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.

You should know how to do your job.

We're not happy unless we feel like we're growing.