The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

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.

It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.

The choice to believe is yours. It’s the only thing that truly is.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

Begin with praise and honest appreciation.

Mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates.

The only way you will advance spiritually is through humility.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City?

I don't like to write from a flat, cold position. You must like what you're doing very much or like the people -- either like them or hate them. You can't be indifferent.

Poetry is our heart, our spirit, our soul. Call it whatever; without it, everything else is nothing but hardware.