Make specific appointments with yourself to work on goals, and treat an appointment with yourself as you'd treat an appointment with anybody else.

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.

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

She would never forget how his soul was lonely as the moon they’d met under, and how, for several brief moments, she’d been able to chase the loneliness away.

In vain our labours are whatsoe'er they be unless God gives the Benediction.

Cleanliness is next to fordliness.

Funerals are all abstract ceremony.

I have looked back on situations and thought that I could have handled a few differently and probably better.

There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.

I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel.

Arguably, Blackburn have got the best forward line in the Premiership. There's no denying that.

Denying self isn't a one-time thing, but a daily task.