Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.

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.

What in the blue star-blazes did you see in Jason?" he asked, still forcefully but with his frustration and jealousy under better control."For one thing, Djetth, he wasn't trying to kil

But death has taken root inside you and you know it will grow, like a cancer with a voice, from now until the day it consumes you whole.

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

Action is movement with intelligence

I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's Day. I'm lucky sevens.

I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

The running backs are the strengths of their football team. They have quality players who can do a number of things for their team.

It's always a problem - you've got to figure out a place to put your body. You've got to wake up in the morning and deal with the fact that you have this body to lug around.

And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test?