Sometimes poor behavior is simply bad execution of good intent.

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.

War is massacre. It is 100 per cent negative.

Weakness of skills can be overcome with strength of will.

I am the queen of mediocre, the king of nothingness

The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.

I have a thing: I will always put money in for any street musician anywhere in the country, anywhere in the world. It's like giving back the money I got.

The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity to which others are trying to prove him wrong.

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

In masks and gown we haunt the street And knock on doors for trick or treat Tonight we are the king and queen, For oh tonight it's Halloween!

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

The kids who need the most love will ask for it in the most unloving ways