The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.

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.

Most people dont understand the process. They get frustrated by it. Dont Be. Focus

Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.

The bourgeois stands like a question mark, Speechless, like the hungry cur, The ancient world stands there behind him, A mongrel dog, afraid to stir.

I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.

Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.

For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation's wealth.

Speak your dream into existence and the universe will attract the right circumstances and conditions for it to be realized.

I had to take the driver's test twice. And they don't make you parallel park anymore, but you can't hit the curb when you're backing up. And I hit the curb.

[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.