A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.

The heart of human excellence often begins to beat when you discover a pursuit that absorbs you, frees you, challenges you, or gives you a sense of meaning, joy, or passion.

Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles.

Where the mind goes, everything follows.

Belief is the mother of reality. Excellence is a state of mind.

A woman who walks away from the promise of power finds the strength to forgive – and saves her friendship, her marriage, and her sanity. The world is turned upside down.

It was a brave old world.

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

I don't ever want to humiliate a human being, and I don't want the fear of being humiliated to participate in my thoughts.

Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them.

To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

Season your admiration for a while.