Self respect, self worth and self love, all start with self. Stop looking outside of yourself for your value.

When people say "If I only knew then what I know now" makes me wonder why they aren't using that wisdom now.

You must embrace change before change erases you.

Planning and perseverance will bring your mission to fruition.

Don't be handcuffed by bad habits when you hold the key to unlock the greatness inside of you.

Nothing is born into this world without labor.

Don't ask for directions if you're not going to start the car.

Your calling is calling you, are you answering?

If you think someone or something other than yourself is responsible for your happiness or success, I'd guess you're not that happy or successful.

If all the world's a stage, I suggest you start performing at your best.

Achieving success is a challenge but so is struggling so you may as well choose success.

the prospect of beginning a third- act career scared me almost as much as it attracted me.

They've got organizations for people like me with stupid preoccupations.

Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.

In storytelling, the audience actually wants to work for their meal, they just don't want to know that they're doing it.

The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.

In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary?

Do you think a man is the only creature with whom one may fall in love?

Help and not fight. Assimilation and not destruction. Harmony and Peace and not dissension.

Father of rosy day, No more thy clouds of incense rise; But waking flow'rs, At morning hours, Give out their sweets to meet thee in the skies.

Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes.