Where there's no gardener, there's no garden.

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.

Don’t tell me your evaluation. Give me the facts.

an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.

Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.

If you have ever spray-painted your girlfriends name on an overpass, you might be a redneck.

That's where the conflict starts. We all want for a wife a combination Sunday school teacher and a $500-a-night hooker.

And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.

What I'm trying to produce is the visual equivalent of the chord change that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.