Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

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 he possessed her, they seemed to swoon together at the very borderland of life’s mystery.

There shall be no end to the government of God

I thought that for a long while, but you chose me, and then you chose him, and choosing is hard - one choice is never the end of the story.

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man.

I think the work is always personal. This album differs. It seems to be a lot more positive. It seems to have a certain amount of optimism about it.

I don't want to do anything that I'm not passionate about.

A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child.

The only people who think life should be easy are lazy people

The only place that's holier than St. Andrews is Westminster Abbey.