If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent.

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.

Life has been fair, destiny may have staged it well but the timings were terrible.

Life will always get in the way of living.

Satan will thrash about in one last burst of evil, hoping to capture as many souls as possible before his inevitable end.

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?

If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it.

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting.