The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

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.

Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.

A person can be danced. In all continents the dancers carry little children on their shoulders.

Pain is to be endured. It ends or it does not.

I think the vast majority of Americans would have supported military action to stop the second plane from hitting the World Trade Center, if that had been possible. I would have been among them.

Life, unfortunately, doesnʹt seem to care what we want. Act now while you can actually stop it from being a disaster.

I'm grateful for people who have believed in me when others might not have.

What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.