The quality of your commitments will determine the course of your life.

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.

Mal snickered. "What's so funny?""I just pictured the Darkling being cornered by a sweaty duchess trying to have her way with him.

It's only in the mysterious equations of love that any logical reasons can be found.

I do not care what you think of me.

Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.

You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies.

For why are we here if not to try to fathom one another? Not through facts alone, but with the full extent of our imaginations. And what are stories if not tools for imagining?

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment

Turks continued their previous policy. They would not stop committing massive and most awful massacres that even Leng Timur would not dare to do.

Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.