If the challenge seems a bit too overwhelming, that's the one you want. Take it on & let it pull you up.

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.

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

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.

All should be accepted, not excluded from the world. Men who hate others shed hate upon themselves. All should have trust, not broken faith.

Paradise is only for those who have already been there.

Beauty alters the grain of reality.

Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!

One reason why the progressive state is 'cheerful' is that social conflict is diminished by it.

I think as a filmmaker you try not to have any expectations other than that the film have a fairly substantial beginning, middle and end.

The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.

Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Honesty Any kind of lasting success is rooted in honesty.

Corn and bean people, I'm afraid, have extremely specialized minds.