The ability to establish, grow, extend, and restore trust is the key professional and personal competency of our time.

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.

High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.

A trusting heart is forgiven and, in turn, forgives.

It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.

When you get a class reciting some great poems, it'll tear your heart out.

Imagine your shadow burning off the page / As the dear world and the dead word disengage

I actually have a little routine I do before every shoot. I put a face mask on before bed and make sure I go to sleep early. Then, I get up early and make myself breakfast and get in a workout.

Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.

The answer to most questions can be given in one or two words, and no one will challenge you to go deeper.

I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own.

Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well.