It's better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.

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.

There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.

In the future, financial firms of any type whose failure would pose a systemic risk must accept especially close regulatory scrutiny of their risk-taking.

I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.

A lot of people who work in computers think that the world is like them.

The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.

It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.

Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.

If there is a rotten government in a democracy, the main reason for this is that there is a rotten majority over there!

Great love endures time, heartache, and distance. And even when all seems lost, true love lives on.

Big cities have a lot of 'younger brothers' who have left traditional parts of the world and their families for a more liberal lifestyle. But cities are filled to the gills with 'elder brothers' too.