Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.

We suffer in silence.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty the drama of human life would be destroyed.

City Year is taking on some of the toughest work in education.

Human rights must be protected by the rule of law, and there can never be occasions where human rights can be neglected or ignored or the rule of law set aside.

All nations that are civilized and do not accept this kind of action as representing any sort of legitimate political cause are coming together to fight these terrorists.

That's your friend. My husband is my best friend. He's not the mirror that holds up my flaws. He's just the guy who's like, 'I think you're terrific'... It's just simple, showing up for each other.

They that are against Superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I will wear all colours but black, then am I superstitious in not wearing black.

Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake.

I've never been in a focus-group meeting. I wonder how many anchors can say that.

I have a pretty good sense of when to express misgivings. And white critics are just as capable of pointing those things out and noticing them as people of color.