Don't cheat people of their growth. Empower them to solve problems and generate ideas. Watch them grow!

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.

Form delicious bonds. Be the fruit that others seek when their hearts and souls are hungry.

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare but I can write a book by me.

What goes 0-300 in less than 2 seconds? Your mother on a scale.

Though there are times when it may seem like God is silent, he is never absent.

The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!

A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.

My father wasn't a militant racist. He was a human rights activist - he was about human beings, so let's just get away from going way back then.

Reality is recognized in its wholeness only as it shatters to bits.

The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have lightly stepped inside, slams it shut behind us.

I’m not terribly interested in beauty. What touches me is someone who understands herself.