For things to change, you have to change.

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

Either you run the day or the day runs you..

Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Focus on the solution, not on the problem.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries.

Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.

Be grateful for each moment, for we know not which will be our last.

I don't read reviews, and I don't include the press as part of my priorities or as part of the world that has any validity to what's really important to me.

I think that people vibe off your energy and I'm a pretty mellow person.

Success does not happen all at once. In life, there is no instant pudding.

The profit motive, indecorous though it may seem, may represent the best chance the poor have to reap some of globalization's benefits.

I'm sorry to keep focusing on the New Yorker, but everybody who was growing up when Calvin [Trillin] and I were growing up wanted to be published in the New Yorker.

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature.

It's not the Jews that killed Christ. It was a political situation, and it was the Romans who killed Jesus. They put Jesus on the cross, not the Jews

I think the Priem Minister has to be a butcher and know the joints.

Your life is constantly nourished by your thoughts. Whatever the direction your life is moving, your thoughts have led you there.