The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more you will have to express gratitude for.

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.

Without compassion, you will never truly connect with another human being.

Being in 'Us Weekly' does not make you famous.

We're all different and I respect my difference. I just try to be myself at all times. As long as I do that my music is always going to be different.

I will help the good fight continue until that long awaited moment arrives, when our rights are equal and when the political limits on love have been smashed.

The politics around trade has always been tough, particularly in the Democratic party, because people have memories of outsourcing and job loss.

There is a bizarre notion according to which it is claimed that because men are corrupt, it is necessary to give certain of them all the more power... on the contrary, they must be given less power.

Guilt is always jealous

We tend to look at countries in terms of failed states and functioning states, which is rather simplistic.

By letting go, it all gets done.

I wanted to put all my family stories down for my girls, and I remember everything so vividly. I just wanted to put everything down while I still can remember it all.