Say "no" to the good and say "yes" to the best.

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.

Sometimes I felt as if we were all wading around in grief, reluctant to admit to others how far we were waving or drowning.

[Students] often have a "We can figure this out - don't just tell us" attitude. In that way, they can be less patient with "traditional" approaches to teaching.

I still believe in marriage.

When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.

The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling.

My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.

The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.

Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.