Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves.

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.

Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.

All the words I had prepared turned coward and fled my mind like conscripts deserting a battlefield.

It doesn't matter whether they mean it or not. That's why they make little kids pledge allegiance even before they know what 'pledge' and 'allegiance' mean.

It would be a sad situation if the bag was better than the meat wrapped in it.

Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement

If anyone accuses me of lying, I'll simply say I'm not lying, which is just an extension of the overall lying strategy.

The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down.

Thank God life ends—we'd never survive it. From Big Bang to weary shag, the history of the world. Our flesh is ferocious...our bodies will kill us...our bones will outlive us.

If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.

You won't find a solution by saying there is no problem

I like to have fun, but I don't play games.