The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

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.

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.

You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

See the light in others, and treat them as if that is all you see.

We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word 'intelligence, ' we think of Einstein instead of humans.

The world will not know liberty until all that is religious and political is transformed into something simple and human and made susceptible to criticism and denial.

I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.

Dance tango and you are literally plastered up against somebody's body

I care about the children of Detroit.

Many patients cannot hear until they feel heard.

If you're black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. Long as you south of the Canadian border, you're south.

Perhaps the most radical act we can commit is to stay home.

No corporeal substance can be so subtle and swift as this.