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 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.

Violence can read like poetry. You just have to describe the act as if you’re in love with the way your characters bleed.

never ask the tight-rope walker how he keeps his balance. if he stops to think about it, he falls off

When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.

First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience.

Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.

Yes, for most people nowadays television is their only contact with the world beyond their work.

If you fall, get back up. That's what life is about.

I'm a loving drunk. I get sentimental. "I love you guys." I drunk-dial a lot.

There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine; And brilliant underfoot with thousand gems, Steeply the thickets to his floods decline.

Ambition is a funny thing. You can completely screw yourself with it if you're not careful.