Be someone who lifts others higher, and your life will be rich. Be someone filled with gratitude, and there will be no end to the things for which you'll be thankful.

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

Be someone who listens, and you will be heard. Be someone who cares, and you will be loved. Be someone who gives, and you will be blessed. Be someone who comforts, and you will know peace.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

Achievement does not require extraordinary ability. Achievement comes from ordinary abilities applied with extraordinary persistence.

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.

Life does not owe you anything, because life has already given you everything.

You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.

Spread the seeds of encouragement far and wide, and delight in the bountiful harvest that they will surely bring.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life.

Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.

You can say you're a liberal and everybody laughs and it's a good time.

Anyone who is aware of his environment knows that the peril of physical assault does exist, and that it exists everywhere and at all times.

As an adolescent, Vonnegut made my life bearable.

We try to make the sound hold as much relevance as it does on the record you know, we don't try and interpret it in a different way.

How many people in the pews know that [ Jonathan Edwards] is both a founder of evangelicalism and, say, an idealist who denied that the material world exists?

In fighting for women, we fight for humanity. We fight for the future - for everyone.