People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.

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.

Our eventual fate will be the sum of the stories we told ourselves long enough.

It takes a moment to make memories and a lifetime to forget them.

The two most powerful words when we're in struggle: me too.

People just need to be confident in their own skin and be proud of themselves.

I want to be a traveling circus in that big-league uniform, like everybody else.

God is a dark night to man in this life.

Memoirists wish to tell their mind, not their story.

If your relationship with someone is based on your desire for them to change into something radically different, there's no real closeness there, no real communication.

Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.

That's the whole point of life, you know? To meet new people.