If you want to lead a family/team/organization, learn to lead/manage yourself first.

I think you can measure how pathetic your life is by how much joy you get from learning about other people's faults and troubles.

The more I simplify my life, the happier I feel.

Effective communication is the best way to solve problems.

Success is a collection of small victories & disappointing setbacks. Understand the process, stay positive, & focus on the fundamentals.

Everything breaks; the only things that last are things you're willing to fix.

A great start to the perfect day - a world-class workout at the gym... It's hard to feel miserable after a great workout.

Surround yourself with positive people and positive influences.

Today make GOOD DECISIONS. Decide to selflessly serve others, to control your thoughts, to eat water-rich foods and to get lots of exercise.

Originality is so hip and cool, but to be original you must dare to be corny.

Talent is the discipline, commitment, and willpower to practice/train/study often, long, and hard. Discover your passion and pay the price.

Happily ever after doesn’t just happen because you’ve found the love of your life. Happiness is a personal choice.

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave.

We are powerful because we have survived

Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

It's a great medium for trivia and hobbies, but not the place for reasoned, reflective judgment. Suprisingly often, discussions degenerate into acrimony, insults and flames.

She walked fast, to keep ahead of her fear.

The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools

Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and obtain a lush lifestyle makes a certain (albeit seedy) sense.

Comics can do any kind of story. It's words and pictures, the only things it can't do are sing and dance.