I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T, teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.

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.

Fiction is the evidence that reality exists

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding in an hour.

I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.

He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.

So much of contemporary liberalism seems to be never having grown up.

With some bands, there's a fear that if people do other things, the band is going to change and not hold it together. That's kind of sad; if you love someone, set them free, right?

I write to empty my mind and to fill my heart.

The Denver Broncos are all child molesters

I loved you ere I knew you; know you now, And having known you, love you better still.

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money, but if they believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.