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.

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 make excuses for why you can’t get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen.

Sometimes it is only in our darkest hours that we show our true colours in life.

One basis for life and another basis for science is a priori a lie.

I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I'm a liar.

If you are prepared, ” he told his players, “you will be confident, and will do the job.

Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

Radishes grow just about anywhere. People think, 'Oh it's just a radish.' But radishes are delicious, and people don't think of cooking them.

Once, I was a poet, and, like all poets, I spent too long in the Kingdom of Dreams.

But if you've ever felt love, you'll know how painful it is to suffer for love.

I’ve come to ask you where Seth is.” "Funny,” said Andrea. “We were going to ask you the same thing.” I was taken aback. “How would I know?” They both just stared. "I don’t!

Never look back. If Cinderella had looked back and picked up the shoe she would have never found her prince.