Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence.

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.

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

One day we both are going to realize that our Friendship was worth the fight.

The beautiful is powerless but always exceeds what frames it, and what always frames it is discourse.

There is one person that is wiser than anybody, and that is everybody.

The Universe will kick you out of your nest so you can fly.

The fact that a total of 18 musicians humbly came together to share the glory and create something this original, epic, and downright heavy, is a feat worthy of deep respect.

People are going to wake up to this great reservoir of music we've created in America - cakewalks, one-steps, boogie-woogie, country and western. I had a bit to do with one of those traditions.

I'm a fetishist. I make films based on what I would like to see.

In the southern hemisphere, covering the Christmas tree with fake snow even though winter has nothing to do with the birth of Christ.

I skate about 15 to 20 hours a week and also incorporate a lot of off-ice training. I take ballet and Pilates classes and lift weights with my physical therapist when I'm not on the ice.