Success in one role can't justify failure in another.

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.

I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t know. I didn’t know that you were ashamed of me.

The truth is, most people who do what you'd call 'wrong' do it for what they call 'right' reasons.

Infinite possibilities exist within the art of storytelling. To me, it is nothing less than the magic of creation.

... and she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown.

It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed.

Parry Otter, the Chosen Boy Who - well - something of that sort.

What has been said does not simply belong to us.

There is no marriage, yet, for human beings and animals. I never thought that I would fall in love like this with a cat.

I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.

I love Alexander Wang!