Principles are deep fundamental truths... lightly interwoven threads running with exactness, consistency, beauty and strength through the fabric of life.

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.

Just remember life is all an illusion.....it's your creation and you can dismantle it and re-create at will.

Kent steepled his fingers in consideration. Blood-red rubies flashed in the sunlight, like the eyes of a demon clutched in his hands.

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

Paradigm is a part of the conditioning of the mind, our conditioning thought patterns

I hate people who over intellectualize. It bores me deeply.

Because we have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to survive, we are ready to give up everything - even our lives - in our struggle for justice.

Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.

I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.

If I ruled the world Imagine that...

I have three children to take care; I have a wife. My job is to take care of them, and I can say it's a pretty cool job to have.