The amateur salesman sells products; the professional sells solutions to needs and problems.

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 Fiction defense. Sometimes I just need to use it.

God finds a way to weave even your mistakes into the fabric of a brighter future if you let Him.

I guess when you'd lived as long, and pondered as much, as Old Tom had...a game of hopscotch could be more profound than village politics or gossip.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run the truth that finally overtakes you.

Music is just something that explains people lives for them - that's what people call roots

I could go anywhere, but I always like to have a bit of a feminine touch to everything I do.

To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a "support group". Salvation in a can!

I'm going to do things when they are right for me.

Kneel to nobody; bow to everyone.

When you are completely satisfied with what you have made, you're pretty much done as a director. So when that happens, that'll sort of be the end.