There is no future in a job. The only future is inside oneself. We look inside rather than outside. We become producer rather than consumers of other peoples’ production.

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.

To live in love is my life’s purpose.

In rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism.

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

There are ten church-members by inheritance for one by conviction.

If you have clutter, you're richer than you think!

Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

I would love to play Lee in 'True West' and Bobby in 'Company.

There's times when I just have to quit thinking... and the only way I can quit thinking is by shopping.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.