The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

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.

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long.

Defeat is a transient perception but giving up is permanent. So never give up.

Never underestimate the power of Abby Joseph Cohen.

Rhyannon Byrd has a gift for beautiful, sensual storytelling.

I have seven scars from having moles removed. One was a melanoma, six were precancerous. Get your moles checked!

The things that have made America great are being subverted for the things that make Americans rich.

Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.

The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction.

The successful leader does not talk down to people. He lifts them up.

It's weird making a drawing of painting. I start to realize that charcoal is this incredibly fragile material. I'm making images of paintings out of dust.