People and their managers are working so hard to be sure things are done right, that they have hardly have time to decide if they are doing the right things.

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.

You’re not as good as you think. You don’t have it all figured out. Stay focused. Do better.

In philosophical inquiry, the human spirit, imitating the movement of the stars, must follow a curve which brings it back to its point of departure. To conclude is to close a circle.

While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.

Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.

I'm going to continue writing. I'll always be a storyteller. But I'm also taking time to enjoy my life.

The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.

I consider myself normal. I've spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that's normal.

I am busy with my work. My path is clear.

I really am thankful that I got to do The Proposal movie the right way with people who taught me how to do comedy better.

Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.