Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.

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.

The need to prove who you are will vanish once you know who you are.

It is the pride of my heart to have been one of the earliest adopted sons of America.

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.

If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow.

Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don't think so. It's modern. It's a part of today's world.

Harriet Miers is totally qualified for the Supreme Court of the United States. Her legal background, her absolute leadership in the legal field when she was a practicing lawyer are unqualified.

Being a woman in music and having kids, it's very hard to do both without neglecting one a bit.

Don't worry about making mistakes. In fact, the more mistakes you make, the more progress you are making. Just don't repeat the same mistakes.

Hayek became in his later years the dominant intellectual influence of the last quarter of the twentieth century.

I am very selfish, really. I lived for love.