The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word 'no.' Love respects 'no,' control does not.

When you encourage someone, it literally changes their brain chemistry to be able to perform... sends fuel to the brain.

The human heart will seek to be known, understood, and connected with above all else. If you do not connect, the ones you care about will find someone who will.

In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.

Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.

Whatever's happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don't treat it like it's the whole story. Keep writing the story.

Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.

Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1.

We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record kind of reveal itself to us over time.

CALVIN: As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight.

I'd like to see (the films) go back to the books. I think (the films) need to be dirtier. I think that you should feel the man playing Bond could die at any moment. You don't feel that any more.

Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.

I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

I hope my desire to travel so much isn't forever because it's not the most conducive lifestyle for a relationship or a family by any means.