The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard

Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.

Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.

Once a week, do a thorough review of all your projects in as much detail as you need to. If you do, your systems will work. If you don't, no system will work.

Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.

You can do anything, but not everything.

Small things done consistently, in strategic places, create major impact.

Most people move actually into high performance in a crisis because that creates the kind of focus that creates high performance.

You may be a poet and not even know it.

There is a difference between civil partnerships and marriage. That difference does not mean one is better than another.

Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them.

I thought, acted, and thereupon found myself removed.

If you’re worried about giving your secrets away, you can share your dots without connecting them.

If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.

A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes the difference? The verb.

Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.

That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.

How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath To say to me that thou art out of breath?