The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

Be someone who listens, and you will be heard. Be someone who cares, and you will be loved. Be someone who gives, and you will be blessed. Be someone who comforts, and you will know peace.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

Achievement does not require extraordinary ability. Achievement comes from ordinary abilities applied with extraordinary persistence.

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.

Life does not owe you anything, because life has already given you everything.

You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.

Spread the seeds of encouragement far and wide, and delight in the bountiful harvest that they will surely bring.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

Open your arms to CHANGEbut don’t let go of your VALUES.

And I look at Harley, and the billions of stars are in his eyes, and he's drinking them up, pouring them into his soul.

Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.

Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal.

What is Christian in art does not lie in the theme but in the spirit of it, in its wisdom and the understanding of reality it reflects.

The true test of relationships is not only how loyal someone is when we fail, but how thrilled they are when we succeed.

A regret I have was never being able to interview George Harrison. I just loved him but I never had a chance to interview him.

Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.

White has no positional equivalent for the centralized pawn.