People are your most valuable asset. Only people can be made to appreciate in value.

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 didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.

A knowledge both of the factors of evolution and how they operate in human society becomes necessary if we are to develop a sound social order.

But then there's loneliness. However you might philosophise about it, loneliness is a terrible thing, my dear fellow… Although in reality, of course, it's absolutely of no importance!

Lacking an articulable defense of the cultural values under siege, he became a vessel of smoldering animosities.

By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.

I maintain that some Jew wrote it who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any.

In my heart I'm independent, a bit of a rebel, a nonconformist.

Economic growth won't feed a growing population living on this finite planet

There is nothing more American than peaceful protest.

Sometimes spending time with someone who is perceived as 'successful' can make us feel less successful.