All too often we fail to see the good in a difficult situation. Our minds are wired in such a funny way that we tend to believe just because a door closed it must be a bad thing.

Don't be in a hurry to achieve your dreams. Take a day to play with your kids and relax - your dreams will still be there tomorrow.

When you find a way to incorporate your goals and dreams with what you enjoy most, then you have found success!

Putting 100% effort into "trying" will always make you successful. With that in mind it's important to remember that the effort part is never easy.

If you want to know whether or not you have had a successful life, think about what people would say about you at your own funeral.

If you don't believe in yourself, who will?

To fail at trying is worse than to fail after trying. If we never try, then we never learn.

If you have friends and family who love you unconditionally - you truly have everything!

Forget about what you might have lost but instead focus on what you have room to gain.

If we never experienced the the valuable lessons from failure, then we would never truly appreciate the pure joy of our success.

A closed door really is an open door in disguise.

The child was slender as fleeting hope.

Don't wait to have a baby! Do it now!

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

A reluctant leader is highly suspicious of people who work to accumulate and hoard power.

Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.

The motive of fear is the be-all and end-all of religion.

I don't know if I could, like, see a face and know what the face of beauty looks like, but after I've seen it I know if I've felt like it was beauty.

I mean what I say when i say it. After that, it's hard to say

Altruism is a hard master, but so is opportunism.

I always hang up my own dresses. It is a good lesson in appreciation and in always remembering that you're part of a team, not outside of the team, but with the team and on the team.