It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective.

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.

Professionalism shouldn't be defined by a persons paycheck, role or title. It should be defined by a persons work ethic

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.

Davis is a literargy dyspeptic who had more ink than blood in his veins, an intriguer, buys with private enmities.

Children desperately need to know - and to hear in ways they understand and remember - that they're loved and valued by mom and dad.

Exercise is really for the brain, not the body. It affects mood, vitality, alertness, and feelings of well-being.

We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future.

It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. In the depths there is a spring with all the water your heart is thirsty for.

I've been accused of humanizing the Nazis, to which I can only say, you can't blame me for that. God did that. Go talk to him. It's a strange thing for an atheist to say.