Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.

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 military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

Make love to melike you know I am better than the worst thing I ever did.

Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.

If you do not run your subconscious mind yourself, someone else will run it for you.

When your mind drifts away from one of the secret meditation techniques, do not become upset or frustrated. Gently move your mind back to the technique you were practicing and begin again.

Going back to Baltimore is awesome because all my friends still live there and there's never a dull moment when you're hanging out with your high-school friends.

There is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean

Everyone I know is looking for solace, hope and a tasty snack.

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.

My earliest memories are of watching Star Trek and MASH while my parents barbecued chicken in the back yard. I was an American kid, through and through.