At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.

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.

Don’t marry him. Don’t be with him. Be with me.

One of the things I find most exciting is talking with people who are working with my work. Who are using it in some way with their life to address everyday politics of meaning.

Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.

The only thing I'm allergic to is criticism.

When you have a child, the world has a hostage.

When I got to match point in the final I was afraid I'd be a little nervous, but I just said, You have to stay focused, just think about what you have to do.

What I do believe in is other worlds and spirits. There is some other power in control - levels of energy that perhaps we don't see.

I love to rock, but it's liberating not to always have to keep up with the freight train that is the Old 97's

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a text message.