In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Every achievement, big or small, begins in your mind.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

Never give up, because you never know if the next try is going to be the one that works.

The greatest pollution problem we face today is negativity. Eliminate the negative attitude and believe you can do anything. Replace 'if I can, I hope, maybe' with 'I can, I will, I must.

No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two heavy layers of praise.

Don't let the negatives of life control you. Rise above them. Use them as your stepping stones to go higher than you ever dreamed possible

that your power of commandwith simple language wasone of the magnificent things ofour century.(from the poem: result)

As we witness the death of departed souls, other people will observe our departure from the world.

Caregivers had to take care of themselves, and part of that meant having a life beyond whatever illness had put them in their cole.

I spent all my time in the clouds or the dirt and that is why I think I’m successful

I think we're on too many government watch lists. We'd better let this one go.

This book is not a polemic treatise but a powerful, well-researched account that sensitizes any reader to the ways in which in-difference permits brutality and genocide.

All the world's a stage we're going through.

Lookin up at the huge baboons, I wondered if Khufu had some sort of secret baboon code that would get us in. But instead he barked at the statues and cowered heroically behind my legs.

I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.

You gotta call a blacksmith.