You can't live principals you can't understand.

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.

We sealed it with a kiss, and with the kiss, we sealed what would eventually become an engagement, a marriage, a Cape Cod, a dog, grilled cheese sandwiches on Mondays, and everything in between.

The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.

Yes is like credit, No is like cash.

It never got ugly, although it got a bit strange at times.

O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard, Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure

I play piano and write better than I can sing.

We’re grateful when all is well, but can we say the same on disastrous days?

Greatest generation came through some stuff that we can't even imagine - the Depression, World War I - and all they wanted after that was a breather and a calm and a quiet life, and they get us.

We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

Be prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you.