Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

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.

To God your every Want In instant Prayer display Pray always Pray and never faint Pray without ceasing Pray.

This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.

New York has been the best gift, in that the city pushes me to so many next levels.

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

If you decide you don't have to get A's, you can learn an enormous amount in college.

Chinese people age overnight.

A democratic state will protect the freedom to hold any beliefs other than those that harm others, such as racism. In particular, it will see to it that no one is harmed just because of her beliefs.

I personally believe we were put here to build and not to destroy.

What is behind you is forgotten. You can't remember danger and difficulty when it is behind you

The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.