Only as we keep an open communication with our deep inner life will we have the wisdom to make effective choices.

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.

There were two immediate results of my forced loneliness: I began to find company in books, and greater pleasure in music.

Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they ain't got.

When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses.

The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.

I'm a fan of comic books. I'm a nerd. I'm a geek. I'm all that stuff.

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

Sabbath is not simply the pause that refreshes. It is the pause that transforms.

For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.)

Love is a God, who cooperates in securing the safety of the city.