When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.

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 am not questioning God's power! It is God who gave us reason and circumspection! It is God we serve by exercising prudence!

If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay.

I had no night terrors. Maybe when your real life becomes the terror, there's just nothing left to dream about

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

I think we’ve been oversold the value of more and undersold the value of less.

Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.

Every time you are willing to say “Yes” to everything on your path, you express the hero inside of you.

My feeling toward the animal is that he is our younger brother, and that we are our brothers keeper.

I don't think anyone wants to grow up to be Mindy Lahiri, the same way no one wants to grow up to be Michael Scott.But that's OK.

When I was 10 years old my mom used to play Tupac while she cleaned the house.