Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

Make a conscious effort to surround yourself with positive, nourishing, and uplifting people -- people who believe in you, encourage you to go after your dreams, and applaud your victories.

Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.

Decide what it is you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.

You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

Each of us is born with a life purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take.

When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.

No idea with who has no idea

Every pampered child becomes a hated child.... There is no greater evil than the pampering of children.

I'm having an unbelievable time on the road. I am taking the time to explore each new city in a way I never have before.

The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.

We must change boys from a 'what can I get' to a 'what can I give' attitude.

I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.

Hawaiians want change, and if the Democrats don't offer change, Hawaiians are going to vote for the Republican who offers change.

I don't want to pitch forever.

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

I think the coming of spring, the stars overhead, the first snowfall and so on are gifts for a child, a young poet.