The amount of truth a relationship can handle is proportional to the amount of perceived love that's present.

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word 'no.' Love respects 'no,' control does not.

When you encourage someone, it literally changes their brain chemistry to be able to perform... sends fuel to the brain.

The human heart will seek to be known, understood, and connected with above all else. If you do not connect, the ones you care about will find someone who will.

In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.

Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.

The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.

Whatever's happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don't treat it like it's the whole story. Keep writing the story.

Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.

Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

Be careful who you believe and how you believe who you believe. What and Who you believe influences your life powerfully

He should be the one to die, part of me thinks.I don't want to lose him, another part argues.I don't know which part to believe.

The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it's not simple at all.

I went to the bathroom and threw some water on my face, combed my hair. If I could only comb that face, I thought, but I can't.

...they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying.

I love the whole of California, I have places... my whole thing is with all the money I make, I just want to buy as many places in California as I can because I love it.

This book will not harm you unless someone throws it at you which is a possibilty never to be discounted.

Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.

The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience. That audience looks collectively at what is going on on the stage and collectively imagines that this is real.

If you make a habit of doing nothing, you have already earned your reward.