What is common sense isn't common practice.

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.

One day you'll be like me" is a waste to say. Instead you should "Someday you'll be better than me.

Fighting the right battle is as important as winning one.

Knowing what I know about the people who have come before me, and the people who came before them, and what they had to do, it changes my capacity to stay engaged, to stay productive.

I have always believed that if you want to achieve anything special in life you have to work, work, and then work some more.

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.

Just as with running, there were days that I didnt feel like writing; I wrote anyways.

I will fear no evil for I am the baddest beast in the land. (Nick)

I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

You shake a slogan at an American and it's just like showing a hungry dog a bone.