Quality relationships are built on principles, especially the principle of trust.

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.

There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd.

Books are the most mannerly of companions accessible at all times in all moods frankly declaring the author's mind without offense.

As a man is so he sees.

Weigh risk carefully, and once you decide a risk is manageable and necessary in the pursuit of your dreams, take it.

Beware of those angels with their wings glued on.

Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage.

You are losing because of Jewish bankers.

Winston County was a pocket of Republicans. Even in the depression days, when Democrats dominated Alabama, Winston County remained a Republican county and all the elected officials were Republican.

When I'm on a picture, I have two bosses - the director and the producer. My co-star is not my boss.

The best way to excape his ire Is, not to seem too happy.