Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

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.

After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front – in our ancestors, back and back until...

He could take on anything and everything, it seemed, rather than leave himself time to reflect on his dissatisfaction with his life and what he might do about it.

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.

Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth.

The question is what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying?

Ease my suffering. Make me the happiest, most tortured man in the world. Marry me?

He who makes time precious lives forever.

Memories shared serve each one differently.

Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.