Successful people believe in the validity of their own dreams and goals, even if dreams are all they have to go on.

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.

Okay, sense of humor: plus one. Being able to laugh at yourself: plus one. Being able to laugh at other people without being mean: plus one. Vanity: minus one.

The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.

Tennis is the loneliest sport.

The dreams weren’t as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true

Were you ever actually going to leave New York, or were you just saying that to get her to finally make a move?” “Clary,” said Luke, “I am shocked that you would suggest such a thing.

Never burn your bridges till you come to them.

The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me.

Rigid belief systems, including skeptism, is signing up for the suppression of curiosity.

Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.

It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.