If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.

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.

Happy is the man who enjoy warmth of the sun and refresh in the breeze, who is secure within and say I have lived to-day.

If we focus on ourselves alone, we run our nation down.

Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy.

New York restaurants are about selling atmospheres.

No one in the American Enterprise imposes their beliefs. We clash, and I think that's what the West is all about.

Don't give up! I believe in you all. A person's a person, no matter how small! And you very small persons will not have to die If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!

Like my grandmother always said, 'you never know the blessings that come from suffering.

Freedom is... freedom can actually be boring, you've got to realize that.

By nature I am curious about life, and this extends to my business.

It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.