Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.

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.

The price of winning is dedication and the price of dedication is concentration. To get any of the two you have to accept to toil for both.

A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.

I had always heard of Bad Santa one but I hadn't seen it, but it was sort of legendary.

Wine enlivens the human soul.

My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?

Reducing hunger should become the driving force for progress and hope...

The sand stretched out gray and ghostlike and illuminated, a column of light leading forward. It was like something a dead person would see, a tunnel leading toward heaven.

If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.

I'm up early 'cuz ain't enough light in the daytime