Authentic gratitude is much more rare and precious than expressions of gratitude which are often empty courtesies or simply tactical ploys to encourage further gifts or kindnesses.

Don't let others define you. Don't let the past confine you. Take charge of your life with confidence and determination and there are no limits on what you can do or be.

Take pride in how far you've come. Have faith in how far you can go. But don't forget to enjoy the journey.

The key to a better life: Complain less, appreciate more. Whine less, laugh more. Talk less, listen more. Want less, give more. Hate less, love more. Scold less, praise more. Fear less, hope more.

People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world.

Pretty isn't beauty. Pretty is how you look; Beauty is who you are. Pretty is in the face and body; Beauty is in the heart, mind and soul. Pretty fades; Beauty grows.

Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges; whether we seize them or not, the New year will bring new opportunities.

What will matter is not your success but your significance.

When someone is nasty or treats you poorly, don't take it personally. It says nothing about you, but a lot about them.

Success in anything important rarely comes without the Five Horsemen of Success: planning, effort, positivity, perseverance and resilience.

The surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don't dwell.

Thoughts frame your portrait, action paints it.

Your life will be simplified when you choose inaction when no action is required and choose action when action is required!

If you are always worrying about a rainy day, then it's time to strategically start saving for one.

He had not even the self-complacency that enables stupid people to accept their mediocrity with unction

You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.

One must not judge everyone in the world by his qualities as a soldier: otherwise we should have no civilization.

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

If you decide to do comedy that involves risk, risk means risk, and you can't complain of flesh wounds if you sit down at the table to play.

It's not what happens to you in life that matters; what matters is how you deal with it!

The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource like coal.