To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which "life" is made.

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.

I'm going to tell you something I probably shouldn't.

It's honest to admit you'll kill someone because you hate them.

I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters.

The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss--you have gone and lost something else.

The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.

You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.

The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside.

Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government.

I think we can remember our past without valorizing parts of our past that we ought to see as wrong.

I was a big Dave Winfield guy growing up.