Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

It's taken me all this time, all this loss, to realize what really matters is now.

I can tell how good a novel is by how it portrays Jesus.

Just as we expect others to value our boundaries, it's equally important for us to respect the boundaries of others.

In the time that man has been here there is one thing that all have seen and gazed upon in wonder. Luna.

I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.

If you don't deliver, you don't earn the flexibility.

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.

We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters

I thought it would be easy. I thought it'd take me one year to be Salma Hayek.

I dress for the occasion. I like Tom Ford for more formal, especially his suits, and I wear a lot of Under Armour for my athletic gear. I also love Rag & Bone.