Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

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 I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

All my life I'd been told what to believe about politics, coloreds, being a girl. But with Constantine's thumb pressed in my hand, I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.

Even when the strings are broken in our lives, the sweet music plays on in our hearts.

There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it!

You know you've had too much to eat for Christmas dinner when you slump down onto a beanbag and realize... there is no beanbag.

To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.

If he must be alone, he would make solitude his armor.

I will take a backseat to no one in keeping America safe. I have a very clear set of proposals about how we defeat ISIS.

With all the innovation in music today it’s rare to find someone like Engel writing timeless songs that sound at home in the ribcage of rock n roll’s skeleton.

The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.