Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.

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.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

The beautiful illusion of fiction is that everything makes sense and that there was a purpose, that there was a point to it all. And that's the best possible lie because it may even be true.

Share your food with the needy and you shall see that your food will taste much better!

I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

I just really respond to comics. I find it a really exciting medium.

I believe in working in a bipartisan manner.

He only is a true atheist to whom the predicates of the Divine Being - for example, love, wisdom and justice - are nothing.

I don’t mind citing a bad author if the line is good.

Prayer will get you out of a pinch, prayer will get you out of a crises, prayer will get you out of your dilemma, prayer will get you out of your trouble.