If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.

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.

You must do much work to fulfill your dream.

Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.

Meditation is the way the mind is. That's why in Zen they call it the natural state, which means you don't have to go and do anything to meditate.

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

And what he ought to see, hear and understand is truth-eternal truth-and then practice it. That is conversion

I think I'm like The Beatles - I think each one I've done is better than the last one. And hopefully I'll never make a Let It Be.

I used to go into the studio around midnight and stay all night.

When I watch films now, theres more of a musicality to the way the film are written.

It's not the sugar that makes the tea sweet, but the stirring.

The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.