Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home sweet home For there the heart can rest.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

For those who love... time is eternity.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

Finding a name for something is a way of conjuring its existence, of making it possible for people to see a pattern where they didn't see anything before.

You never want to intentionally make a confusing movie.

I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and I have my youth.

I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother

Positive thinking is the key which unlocks the doors of the world.

As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.

Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today.... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.

It's love,' they say. You touch the right one and a whole half of the universe wakes up, a new half.