The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them.

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.

Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the underlying fear that comes from a feeling of helplessness.

Christians should seek after holiness—without which no man shall see the Lord. Let us seek ardently the kind of life that reflects the beauty of Jesus and marks us as being what saints ought to be!

Will ye be wantin’ this now, madam?”“Yes, please, ” she whispered. She wanted to engrave the sight of him thus, about to make love to her, in her mind.

No honest work of man or woman "fails" it feeds the sum of all human action.

Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.

The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.

A little person in a little place can use a little thing, perform a little task, and receive a great reward.

The reality is Hicks is facing an unfair justice system that is not tolerated anywhere else in the world, so where does that leave him

It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.

Also CSPAN is really the great treasure of the media as far as getting information.