Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

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 have nothing but contempt.

Two people kissing always look like fish.

A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive.

It is time to start going door to door and convincing our neighbours to vote for a clean-energy future.

Every war is a war against children.

You're quite tall.' Just what a girl wants to be reminded of.

Courage is caution overcome.

It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.

I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs.

Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.