Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.

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.

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.

Don’t make excuses for why you can’t get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen.

keep searching, keep seeking.

Scott himself had taught me that in the boundless sphere of the intellect there is no prudishness, no shockability. There is only evaluation of facts, and a morality founded on truth.

The strategist chooses the shortest path while the leader chooses the path through which he learns something new.

You need something that no one else is using. And something that is clean enough to play around audiences.

They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.

I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.

The simple definition of evangelism: Those who know, telling those who don't.

When a fact can be demonstrated, force is unnecessary; when it cannot be demonstrated, force is infamous.

Hence the saying: One may know how to conquer without being able to do it.

Of all exercises, walking is the best.