If you want to become healthy, you have to surround yourself with a group of people that are getting healthy and you have to be connected to a community that is doing what you want to do.

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word 'no.' Love respects 'no,' control does not.

When you encourage someone, it literally changes their brain chemistry to be able to perform... sends fuel to the brain.

The human heart will seek to be known, understood, and connected with above all else. If you do not connect, the ones you care about will find someone who will.

In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.

Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.

The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.

Whatever's happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don't treat it like it's the whole story. Keep writing the story.

Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.

Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

It should be noted that the EPA's banning of methanol is categorically absurd from the point of view of environmental protection.

I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

I can't seem to write young enough anymore.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

I'm excited to be seen as sexy. But not slutty.

Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders.

A city built upon mud; A culture built upon profit; Free speech nipped in the bud, The minority always guilty. Why should I want to go back To you, Ireland, my Ireland?

There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth.

I don't usually read reviews. I usually read the interviews, just because I figure it's a good way to try to do them better if I ever have to do them again.

There is no experimental data that exists that supports the view that the Earth's climate is changing in any dangerous way.