If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man.

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.

When your family is twice as weird as normal, you have to be twice as polite to authority, because authority hates weird.

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

Peter finds the lost, the left-behind, the abused. Is that not why you are here? Did Peter not save you?

When the mind changes the outer expression must change to correspond. We are transferred by the renewing of our minds.

My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too.

No matter what our circumstances, our greatest limitation isn't the leader above us - it's the spirit within us.

When the doctor told me I had cancer, I was scared.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him

Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change.