I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.

For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

Make a conscious effort to surround yourself with positive, nourishing, and uplifting people -- people who believe in you, encourage you to go after your dreams, and applaud your victories.

Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.

Decide what it is you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.

You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

Each of us is born with a life purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take.

When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.

The United States and Saudi Arabia have an extraordinary relationship and friendship that dates back to Franklin Roosevelt and King Faisal.

There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects.

the old man dance, where I tense up, shuffle my feet intermittently, complain about the music volume, and sit down for a rest.

I always write the best that I can. And I won't publish it until I have done it right.

For order and a society to exist - and a basketball team is a society within itself - it needs discipline.

We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

I've learned more, and I understand the process a bit better now. I can try to see how long I want to take in each aspect of the filmmaking process, and then arrive at around the two-year end mark.

There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out.

Tilth is something every farmer can recognize but no scientist can measure.