The thing about perspective-changing events is that they usually don't announce themselves as such.

When you manage your expectations, you let yourself soak in the joy of what is actually happening around you.

Life changes as seasons change. And with each season, we, like the farmer, have a job to do in the cultivation of our Don't Die® spirit.

When you use life's curve balls to create positive energy, you cultivate a Don't Die® spirit that powers you through moment by moment so that you live your life to the fullest until the very end.

Abundant evidence exists to prove that we are continually creating excuses to explain why we do not reach our goals.

Synchronicity occurs at the intersection of your awareness, response, perspective, and action.

Not everyone takes action to harvest the experiences of the seasons of life in order to enjoy their bounty.

To get what you want, you better learn from the experience.

Perspective-changing events can have many parts. One part can be a tense, laughter-filled promise. Another part can have no laughter at all.

Change your awareness and your perspective changes.

Teaching is a gift you give not only to others, but also to yourself. You give and you receive, you teach and you learn.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

The biggest enemies of willpower: temptation, self-criticism, and stress. (...) these three skills —self-awareness, self-care, and remembering what matter most— are the foundation for self-control.

Everyone else was trying to make things more complicated and Cronkite, typically, was trying to make them more simple.

That is what all creatures great and small are made of. Leftover stardust. An atom exploded, and all the dust became the planets, the stars...and us. That's all anything amounts to.

Democracy is a fine thing. But that doesn't mean citizens have a right to run riot whenever they disagree with something.#Page: 120

To know God's laws and abide by them is a privilege.

The gospel teaches us to be happy, to have faith rather than fear, to find hope and overcome despair, to leave darkness and turn toward the light of the everlasting gospel.

Commercials and sometimes other guests - it's the down side of TV. Other people - it's the downside of life in general.

I smacked her, cracked her, put her in a full nelson.

My mother was the biggest influence on me, without question.