Writing distills, crystallizes, and clarifies thought.

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.

Misunderstandings arise only in undefined relationships

Emotional intelligence will give you insight as to why people behave as they do and assist you in areas which you may wish to improve.

2017 may have been that year when identity politics hit a brick wall - and slumped limply on the pavement.

The brain is a body part too; we just know less about it.

Delhi is locked in a complete choking smog at the moment - they've had to close schools in one of the world's biggest cities. They have their own reasons for needing to get off fossil fuels fast.

The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.

The Commission on Presidential Debates must be replaced if we want to have a democracy in this country.

And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

You know, if my life was a horse, I’d shoot it. (Susan)