What is important to another person must be as important to you as the other person is to you

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.

My success has nothing to do with opportunities or luck

...I found my eyes repelled by hers as if they were the like poles of a pair of magnets.

That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.

The thing about commuting internationally is that you have to be a lawyer or an airline steward to do it successfully.

Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks.

And see the peaceful trees extend their myriad leaves in leisured dance- they bear the weight of sky and cloud upon the fountain of their veins.

Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.

I'm very into the japanese sensibility. Oversize coats and baggy trousers.

I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from chubby to fat.

Funny how someone telling you not to do something can talk you into it.