Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

‎The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you.

You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

The road to overcoming your fears could lead you to unbearable places but sometimes such gives you an edge than nothing else could give.

I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.

I get up, go shopping, clean the flat, cook my boyfriend's dinner. It's great selling records, but it doesn't mean you have to turn into a freak.

... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom.

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

God delights to see His people rejoice in what He has provided.

In growing up, I was a child of the movies. I went to the movies every given opportunity, and that's pretty much what has informed a lot of my choices.

...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.