Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.

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.

Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to exhibit a failure of nerve.

I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.

He said he don't like em boney, he want something he can grab

Cholesterol to go with alcohol; all the bad things in English-speaking life end in -ol.

I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.