More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.

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.

If we knew how to find the lost, we would know how to rediscover the parts of our mindsleft behindin battle.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.

There's moments when I think it's kind of silly and I wish I would've just stayed natural

Theater is all about foyers and conversation and digesting what you've seen.

The more I see and hear, the more I realize how much I don't know.

I remember pogs and sticky hands. I remember both. I wanted to get into pogs. I remember it was, like, all of a sudden it was here, then gone.

The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Where oil is first found is in the minds of men

I am very selfish, really. I lived for love.