Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise.

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.

Clearly state your goal, passionately pursue it.

We're taking a ride down the Kashirksy Highway

I have Shakespeared my Moliere to Tenessee, and I am Wild for Becket! But I got a little tired of the redundancy.

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.

Art is the consciousness of currency.

In addition to writing in received forms, I have also had fun making up forms - Möbius strips and visual poems, particularly.

I have tried to live my life so that my family would love me and my friends respect me. The others can do whatever the hell they please.

It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant. His life was a blessing.