Choose to live in a place where your eyes are always open to the positive possibilities.

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.

It used to cost money to disclose and distribute information. In the digital age it costs money not to.

Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.

And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don't know me yet.

I was against the war with Iraq. First of all, they didn't knock down the World Trade Centre. It wasn't Iraq that knocked down the World Trade Centre.

In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.

When you see big people, they expect them to wobble or something. The whole feeling of bigger people in this country is so negative. This works for me.

Yesterday doesn't even look the same, and the only thing more beautiful than today is tomorrow.

Pray for me that I not loosen my grip on the hands of Jesus even under the guise of ministering to the poor.

I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.

Let him smell his way to Dover!