Whereas purpose provides the juice and the direction, principles define the parameters of action and the criteria for excellence of behavior.

My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard

Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.

Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.

Once a week, do a thorough review of all your projects in as much detail as you need to. If you do, your systems will work. If you don't, no system will work.

Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.

You can do anything, but not everything.

Small things done consistently, in strategic places, create major impact.

Most people move actually into high performance in a crisis because that creates the kind of focus that creates high performance.

He promised us that everything would be OK. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be OK. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.

We fell, but we never let the box fall from our hands. Then we ran. We ran blindly, and men and houses streaked past us in a torrent without shape.

I'm not the first person to sing about God, Jesus, faith [or] any of that, and I won't be the last. And it won't be the last for me, either. If you don't like it, change the channel.

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

I'm a people person...who drinks.

Mel Gibson's father doesn't think there was a Holocaust? Great. I don't think there's a movie. We're even.

I should have blown this mic like I said I might Got the force of 20 men like a Jedi Knight.

Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets of thunder. And I the eye of the storm.

Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.