Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.

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.

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

I've never used performance-enhancing drugs of any kind, and I never will. I've never met or spoken with Tony Bosch or used any substances provided by him. Anything said to the contrary is a lie.

I've missed out on a huge goal but the desire is still there.

God loves and delights to cross worldly proverbs and worldly craft.

the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.

I am the man of the century. No one will ever forget me.

There was just no good way for a dead son to greet his mother almost two weeks after his funeral.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, meeting the check of such another day.