Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.

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.

If the universe does consist of a battle between the devil and God, the final analysis should conclude that religion would have been the devil’s most brilliant move and science, God’s.

I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it.

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.

Well, on the American side, every new administration has to cut its teeth in a crisis, because before a crisis, you don't really know what your various subordinates are thinking under stress.

Animal liberationists do not separate out the human animal, so there is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all mammals.

The message is that all things are connected. We have animal aspects, anthropological aspects, plant-animal aspects.

God doesn’t waste anything for those who are yielded to him.

... to lovers innumerable things do not matter.

Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.

We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism.