You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

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.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

You will find beauty in every person and experience if beauty has been cultivated within.

I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.

You can never really get away - - you can only take yourself somewhere else.

I'm against the European Union, but I am very much in favor of Europe.

It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.

Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is in no shape for the painstaking examination of distress.

Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.

The day before something is a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea.

If Honda does not race, there is no Honda.