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.

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.

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.

You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

Nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing.

He had quite liked the dwarfs. He often had no idea what they were talking about, but for a group of homicidal, class-obsessed small people, they were really rather good fun.

I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

And every dew-drop paints a bow.

My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?

Every President hates the Press.

The prices of really unhealthy food are kept artificially low, and that contributes to obesity.

I had long wondered," Lan said to Tam. "About the man who had given Rand that heron-marked blade. I wondered if he had truly earned it. Now I know." Lan raised his own sword in salute.

Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.

Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable.