It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.

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.

Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.

Witches release the chapters of the past, which invites the novels of the future.

Babies are unreasonable; they expect far too much of existence. Each new generation that comes takes one look at the world, thinks wildly, "Is this all they've done to it?" and bursts into tears.

Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.

The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function.

That has less significance than a dog's fart.

I don't need exotic places to be stimulated. Out of familiarity comes nuance. The more you revisit a subject the more you're like to discover.

War technology is science in the service of obscene anatomical vandalism.

It will be only a matter of time before the music business establishment completely folds.

We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.