If you focus on the obstacles, then you give them more power. Instead focus on your purpose, on your most authentic and fundamental intentions.

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.

We cannot improve until we know where to improve. Self-analysis is just like looking at the mirror, we don’t present ourselves to others till the time we get satisfied with the image in the mirror.

Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've always delighted in the company of the poets I've read.

We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

I don't snack all the time, but I do sometimes drink l more than I should.

I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.

Sometimes we're so busy trying to get things and at the end of the day, all we need is love.

Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés.