Act as if success is certain.

If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown.

Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.

Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.

No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.

Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.

If you must doubt something, doubt your limits.

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

Excellence calls for character . . . integrity . . . fairness . . . honesty . . . a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board.

So let your deepest desires direct your aim. Set your sights far above the 'reasonable' target. The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire that stirs the heart.

We can't win the struggle for high standards if we just talk a good game . . . we've got to play a good game.

You can see your thoughts and emotions arise & create space for them even if they are uncomfortable.

The day had come when he needed Cassy, and Cassy alone. No one, and nothing else, would satisfy him.

Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree.

I've learnt so much from the people I've worked with, about how to listen to stuff as it's coming together and not force anything.

I don't look my age, I don't feel my age and I don't act my age. To me age is just a number.

Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite makes eating a delight.

Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry feelings.

More than any of us, she had written her own story; yet she could not wash it out with all her tears, return to her victims what she had torn from them, and by so doing, save herself.

Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!

People tend to believe that I want to make soul music, which is not entirely untrue but, really, I want to be like the black Tom Waits - I don't want to make one kind of sound.