Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.

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.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.

Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do.

Carrying a loaded firearm is the gateway crime to committing a murder.

I only envy as basic old sexual jealousy.

Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.

The world is born when two people kiss

I do a couple of hundred press-ups a day but I haven't been to a gym in years.

To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.