Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can't have it.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

It's pretty simple - The Action you take will determine the results you Achieve.

Nothing can drag you down if you're not holding on to it.

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

Its not about the goal. Its about growing to become the person that can accomplish that goal.

The job of a writer is not to convey emotion but to invoke it.

well I believe in commitment it's just I, you know, I don't stick to it.

It does not take great men to do great things it only takes consecrated men.

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

Dave couldn't remember the last time a grownup had apologized to him.

When you have the enthusiasm and the passion, you end up figuring how to excel.

The only thing that can cause your body to hurt in your energy processing centers, [chakras] is when you are losing Spirit through one of them.

Know that the most neurotic, most ugly situation is simply testing you. It is testing capacity, beyond his control, your flexibility, your adjustment and your character.

In a way, everybody is wounded from the wound of the real. This phenomenon is similar to madness. The mad person is wounded by his or her distorted relationship to the real.

And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.