It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it.

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.

Discouragement is the illegitimate child of false expectations! Loyd Ogilive

Poems are lenses, mirrors, and X-ray machines.

Barbara wanted to go to tea at Dorchester as much as she wanted to give birth to octuplets.

Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.

Some people like a harsh teacher. They feel the demands make them learn more quickly. Some like a gentle teacher because they feel that makes them learn more quickly.

Very few among us are noble, or even mature, in all parts of our nature at the same time.

Listen before you draw your battle lines, lest you alienate your allies.

Even in warmest glow how cold my shadow

If you do not like anything, alter it. If you can not change it, adjust your mindset. Will not complain.

There’s a lot of times that both myself and my brother wish, obviously, that we were just completely normal.