People tend to look at dating sort of like a safari - like they're trying to land the trophy.

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word 'no.' Love respects 'no,' control does not.

When you encourage someone, it literally changes their brain chemistry to be able to perform... sends fuel to the brain.

The human heart will seek to be known, understood, and connected with above all else. If you do not connect, the ones you care about will find someone who will.

In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.

Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.

The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.

Whatever's happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don't treat it like it's the whole story. Keep writing the story.

Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.

Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

It would be arrogant of us to think that we exist in a world created specifically for us and that knowing the reality we live in is unnecessary.

The only goal in life is to be happy, genuinely, intensely and consistently, regardless of what it looks like to others.

I will follow anyone... and invite everyone... too unite and defend the freedom of expression.

He had never realized, while Elspeth was alive, the extent to which a thing had not completely happened until he told her about it.

It's better to be the largest independent band from Brazil instead of be the smallest mainstream band.

Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons.

We must do a better job of educating all drivers to be safer on the road.

Negotiations are about controlling things, about being in the driver's seat and make one tiny mistake; you're dead. I made one tiny mistake, I wore women's clothes

Water is very forgiving. Everything lifts in water

Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.