People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.

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.

It is possible to cause seemingly biochemical changes through human emotional involvement. You literally have changed his chemistry by being his friend.

A lot of people said I could be a good player. I just wanted the opportunity to show it. I just let it happen.

The translation called good has original value as a work of art.

It is a pleasure to a real lover of Nature to give winter all the glory he can, for summer will make its own way, and speak its own praises.

Father: Why did you not become mine God!? God: Because you did not believe in me.

I'm always dreaming and doing.

David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.

It's very easy to skip steps when documenting an idea.

That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.

Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did.