People are influenced most by those they trust, admire and believe care for them.

No matter how small you start, start something that matters.

Optimists are happier in life for a reason.

No matter your position, circumstances, or opportunities in life, you always have the freedom of mind to choose how you experience, interpret, and, ultimately, shape your world.

There are only two types of change: Something new comes into your life, or something new comes out of you.

The time you want the map... is before you enter the woods

Successful people take their current limitation and put it on their agenda as a job to do, as a thing to figure out and make happen.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

Ask not what you are getting from the world but, rather, what you are giving to the world.

The more we are true to ourselves, the more we can connect with and contribute to the world.

Ambition has to be joined with expectancy. A sense that you have a dream for yourself that you believe can happen.

Usually when someone is angry we hear their angry words. Instead, try hearing the unspoken, “I am scared, I am frustrated, I am insecure, I am vulnerable, I am threatened.

But the moods could be contagious. He didn't need one right now.

War doesn’t start with an explosion….It bears far more subtlety. A simmer beneath the surface, as if bringing broth to a boil.

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.

They gave me star treatment when I was making a lot of money. But I was just as good when I was poor.

We're more Christian than the Pope. And, I mean, that's not our religion. We pray to the Gods of our conquerors... all black and brown people.

Of all things love is the most potent.

Lundist held that a man who can observe is a man apart. Such a man can see opportunities where others see only the obstacles

I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values.