The first step toward success will be the biggest one.

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.

You are in your own prison.

I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.

I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.

A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.

Marriage is sought and kept alive by a deep yearning to know another and be known by another.

Catherine Keener really gets me. She and I have such a shorthand together.

I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.

After self-nurturance, listening to the whispers of our hearts is probably the hardest task we've ever attempted.