Your systems are perfectly designed to get the results that you are getting.

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.

You can´t gossip about somebody you prayed for. (sb on your prayer list)

Heavenly Father, let there be light in every dark corner.

My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So. . .you're black.

We regard our parties as interesting groups of gladiators.

I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.

People need all the good memories they can keep with them in this world; they're a sort of steering apparatus in a life-boat.

Defining child care primarily as women's sphere reinforces the devaluing of women and prevents their equal access to power.

The wish of peeking at women showering is also a kind of romance.

Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together.

At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on it, because all I want to do is make it good and get it done.