Feelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events.

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.

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.

One of the things I associate with God is a sunrise. How many sunrises have you missed over the years, and God created that?

What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches.

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit.

To those we love best we say the least

Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.

We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.

What True Blood does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.

Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down.

Easy street is a blind alley.