In the long run, you can never accomplish a worthy end with an unworthy means.

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.

There are two infinities that confuse me: the one in my soul devours me

I didn't grasp that desire and duty could rival each other, least of all that they most often did.

I know that God is truth, he holds this still—Beyond me he bears all his free will.

Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt.'

The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.

Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Overstated planning is the backbone of understated elegance.

I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

Everybody needs some inspiration, Everybody needs some motivation, mix it up with some imagination, and use your natural gifts.