Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

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.

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.

You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

Education forms the common mind.

The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.

Given so much, What have I done to Deserve it? Nothing, Absolutely nothing. No wonder my heart Dances.

During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.

I know you think I was pressured into binding myself with you before, but that's not true,I always intended to marry you, kitten.

Any1 who would run out to buy an assault rifle after the Newtown massacre has very little left in their body or soul worth protecting. ;^

No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.

Before, by yourself, you couldn't. Now, you've turned to our Lady, and with her, how easy!

It is a bad situation, the current state of the Labour leadership, a collective failure, the collapse of strategy and vision on all sides.

The professorial dictum has always been to write what you know, but I say write what you don't know and find something out. And it works.