Once you have accepted yourself, it's so much easier to accept other people and their points of view.

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.

Maps are essential. Planning a journey without a map is like building a house without drawings.

Self Hate: The deadliest 'dis-ease' experienced by wounded souls.

I had bad days on the field. But I didn't take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way home.

Bach is how buildings got taller. It's how we got to the moon.

I worked with two young women translators. One died and the other received a death threat from the Taliban.

The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . . Does not see the graves under the flowers.

The running backs are the strengths of their football team. They have quality players who can do a number of things for their team.

Characters aren't a fling. They aren't a one-night stand. Getting to know them takes time and hard work. It takes excessive free writes and multiple experiments.

The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.

The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.