It is extremely ironic that the more we care about what people think about us the less we care about people, and the less we care about what people think about us the more we begin to care for others

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.

Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets.

I try to take care and be gentle to them. Words and eggs must be handled with care. Once broken they are impossible things to repair.

Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position.

We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.

Yoga is a life-saver.

The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.

Remember that one who forgets the language of gratitude can never be on speaking terms with happiness.

Only God can change a season of war into a season of peace. Would you agree with me in prayer for peace?

Even when we strive for perfection , life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.

When people ask me to name the Ligonier teaching material they should use to help them grow; I tell them, 'You should start with The Holiness of God.'