Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?

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.

It's not respectable, ' she said. And when people say that, it's no useanyone's saying anything.

Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.

The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.

If thou art terrible to manyh, then beware of many.

I ain't looking back only forward.

I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.

I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity.

I use different media, but I still think as a painter. I organize my forms and colors on a screen like a painter does on a canvas.

There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief in a deity.

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.