Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires balance.

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.

I'm trying my hardest to get you so wrapped up in me you never leave.

To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.

I am a person who grew up with two wonderful parents and a wonderful family and a person who has done well in life.

Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.

It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.

Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal.

Trouble can always be borne when it is shared.

People ask me, 'Would you ever want to play professional golf?' And I'm like, 'No. No, no, no, no. Just because I can hit a good shot every now and then doesn't make me a pro.'

I'm very spontaneous.

The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.