The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.

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 aftereffects of confiding something you shouldn't have, almost as bad as a hangover.

Fine, it’s decided.” Vain resumed his stride. “I’ll do all the killing, and you doall the stuff that an Avun-Riah does. Whatever the hell that is.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

The '60s were an amazing time.

[Playing] the bad guys tend to be fascinating. Figuring out what makes them do the things they do is what interests me.

Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

You're likable enough, Hillary.

If you choose, you can influence every aspect of your brain, and therefore every aspect of your life.

A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, youre still going to get through the day. But it doesnt make you a happy person if you werent a happy person before.

My concern is less the monarchy as such than the attempt of a fading colonial power to hang onto grandeur.