The deepest hunger of [a child's] human heart is to be understood, for understanding implicitly affirms, validates, recognizes and appreciates the intrinsic worth of another.

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.

Don't be surprised that I value prejudice, observe certain conventions, seek power--it's because I know I live in an empty society.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

MF Doom is like so out-of-the-box and just crazy…

The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it.

Ocean, Ocean I'll beat you in the end.

The broken door lets in the light. The broken heart lets in the world.

Experience has shown that science frequently develops most fruitfully once we learn to examine the things that seem the simplest, instead of those that seem the most mysterious.

People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.

Mysterious affair, electricity.