Priority is a function of context.

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 are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

When my first wife & I began the school, we had one main idea: to make the school fit the child - instead of making the child fit the school.

For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.

I don't believe anyone really likes paint, unless he's tempted to eat it.

Preparedness and punctuality are two of the most important qualities of a leader.

The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy.

I have a bit of a frustrated dancer in me.

One of the hardest things about being alive is being with other people.

See the genius in everyone you encounter. Just as the mountain cannot crack a nut though it can carry a forest on its back, so too does every living creature have its own perfection built into it.