The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

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.

If I knew how and where to sacrifice myself, I must know how and where to save myself.

[W]hen trying to understand the character of the modern mind, it is impossible to separate the effects of genes and the developmental environment.

She had an emptiness in her eyes like a ghost tired of haunting.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.

Changi for me - of course it's easy to be wise after the event, and to discuss it cleverly after the event - was about as near as you can get to being dead and still be alive.

It's one thing to make peace with the idea of something that's going to happen someday; it's another to find yourself at that day.

Receive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance.

In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard.

Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.