You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life!

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.

Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares? He's a mile away and you've got his shoes!

You practice Monday through Friday in college, or Monday through Saturday in the pro's - and then you just go out and knock somebody's head off.

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.

One has to know the size of one's stomach.

I know no better way of waging the battle for Truth than arraying the facts face to face on either side and letting them fight it out.

There are no shortcuts and no sweatless quickies.

If you want to earn a million bucks a year, eliminate mediocrity from your thinking and your life.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Basically, as a leader, I try not to make any mistakes, because there's a lot of people watching even though you don't think so.

I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.