Even when there seems to be nothing else, there is hope.

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.

Look at resistances to change as a source of energy and where there is energy there is still passion and potential.

The power of imagination is a miracle.

There is no shame in being illiterate. One need only feel ashamed when one denies the opportunity to learn.

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

I like Stevie Wonder. I usually wind up playing the same old tapes in the car.

No living being is held by anything so strongly as its own needs.

If you cannot solve the proposed problem try to solve first some related problem.

[Domestic violence is] a carefully laid physical, financial and psychological trap.

There was a good moment in Islam when people were actually challenging authority at every level. Very different from the world we live in.