To know and not to do is not to know.

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.

Life is the subtotal of time

Voices and faces aren't manifestationsof good or bad.

Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity.

Money should not, and must not, change our commitment to solving problems and building this state.

We have our share of accidents at nap time. However, the one thing we never do is shame the child, or use blaming words.

The Democrats' plan for 2006? Take the House and Senate and impeach the president. With our nation at war, is this the kind of Congress you want?

Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He had no effect on national policy at all.

A lot of dudes can't function too long in mainstream life because they've been indoctrinated into that penal system where that shapes their life.

A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.

One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all.