Without exception, empathy is always appropriate.

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.

You can only make money from a time well converted.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed

Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.

I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me.

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods.

An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.

I was not allowed to be an individual. I was black and I was a woman - and I was a black woman.