Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

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

You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

Sadly, so many people stand and watch their life melt away every day without taking advantage of it to produce something of worth.

Knowing the path to follow doesn't make it a breeze to step along. If every desire were only a skip, hop, and a jump away, we'd all have arrived.

I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

I read like fiends smoke crack

I'm inspired by anything. Not even just art, just anything that's real and vulnerable.

No one regrets having changed a lightbulb.

Being a woman anywhere is dangerous.

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors without suffering the State to be troubled with it.

The child who has not been disciplined with love by his little world will be disciplined, generally without love, by the big world.