Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and contribution.

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.

Apparently it's cool to watch The Daily Show.

Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland

It's not that we have to give to support the gospel. Giving is the gospel.

The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.

There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found expression in its music.

We want to be sensitive to people's concerns about privacy about their personal being and things, while ensuring that everybody on every flight has been properly screened.

Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.

Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.

Our power lies in our love of our homelands.

...lest too light winning make the prize light.