The place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our circle of influence, our own character.

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.

When life brings you full circle, pay attention. There's a lesson there.

There exists a line within every man, a line that frightens even us. When an enemy comes to our very doorstep to endanger wife and child, our Beast is unleashed. The Lionmage had gone feral.

Transformation in the world happens when people are healed and start investing in other people.

In the university, professors make up artificial problems. In the real world, the problems do not come in nice, neat packages. They have to be discovered.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

My great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream.

To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all - living in the body, but not of it.

It benefits all artists to help one another - it raises the whole profession.

The National Party is a dying party.

When you're grieving that's not the time to be brave or strong, you need to let it show