Every moment you spend thinking about the bad stuff pushes that much more of the good stuff away.

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.

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

I actually don't trust anyone who tells me they don't like New York.

My home is in Moscow and I have no plans to change this.

Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead

What is spiritual experience? A snowflake melting, a bee sucking honey, a fat man at a traffic light. Trivia.

The burden of disease falls on the poor.

A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.

Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Life protracted is protracted woe.