The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.

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.

And besides, we lovers fear everything

The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences.

No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.

The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.

Michael Gove is the right leader for the country.

If [God] has work for me to do, I cannot die.

Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.

We think highly of men when we do not know the extent of their capabilities, for we always suppose that more exists when we only see half.

Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.

I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.