A gift isn't a gift unless it has meaning. Just giving things to people, especially children, create the expectation of more things.

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

‎The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you.

You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.

My grief has burrowed into me like a dark thing that eats away at my life.

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.

I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest man is like; it is terrifying.

I cannot say something different to one person and then another.

Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead . . . for in imagination, we can create wonders.

The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.

Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.

I've obviously been born fortunate. I love people. I enjoy every single minute of my life.

A lot of what the Internet is showing is that talent is more disperse than gatekeepers such as myself...

My Tris should look pale and small--she is pale and small, after all--but instead the room is full of her.