In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.

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 fish does not know it is wet. America is immersed in violence. The violence is in our souls. The enemy is within.

What do we do after things fall apart? Do we run to the familiar once again? Do we attempt to numb the pain with distractions? What do we do after things fall apart?

If You Fail Don't Fail To Try Again, You Success Maybe in Your Next Trials.

The heart is just the heart; thoughts and feelings are just thoughts and feelings. Let things be just as they are.

I don't think it's good to constantly talk about your own weight and the fact that you look fat in jeans.

Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

I like the distance that Europe gives me. Also if I stayed in America I'd be a full-time politician and have no time for writing, which is why I went to Europe to live in 1961.

Who will reach heaven? I do not know, but I am certain that no one will be there who does not feel at home.

After studying in Sheffield, I went down to London to do my post-graduate degree at the National Film and Television School, embarking on the movie that would eventually become 'A Grand Day Out.

All is a play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. You can know the false only. The true you must yourself be.