...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

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.

The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people.

A heart full of love and a joyful smiling face is the best makeup for life.

So I let her go, too. And I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.Takumi

My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.

I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.

My message of common-sense solutions is resonating with people. People around the country are starting to know who I am and starting to identify me with solutions, not rhetoric.

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

History never recorded this phrase: 'The Mass of Wise.' Because the wise is not too abundant to form masses!

I've been living for 17 years, and I've noticed human relations is the most difficult thing to understand.

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.