Nevertheless, the only way we can move from where we are now to where we would like to be is to accept where we are now.

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.

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

No food is edible, if you don’t feel like eatingStanding is incredible, if you hate sitting

Your skill is the artistry you bring to your world, put out awe inspiring work.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.

Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.

Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.

Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.

Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.