It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

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.

As long as you do things for God, you are a Hall of Famer in heaven's list.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

I am accountable for every lie that I tell, but I am also accountable for the effects of every harsh truth I deliver.

The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.

I understand it's promotion, but no one ever gave me a chance. No one ever thought I'd be the champ, and look where I'm at now.

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

A lot of the things that I like to portray on television are otherwise my real views.

Grief causes suffering and disease.

For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better.

The Blessed Eucharist is the perfect Sacrament of the Lord's Passion, since It contains Christ Himself and his Passion.