The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.

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 see, unlike most writers today, I do not use a computer. I write the old-fashioned way: on the walls of caves.

CoMMOn SeNSe iS nOt sO cOmMOn aMoNg coMMon pEOPLe...

We can have paid family and medical leave. We can make public colleges and universities tuition-free. These are not revolutionary, radical ideas. They're kind of common sense.

I've never stolen anything in my life, except maybe a couple hearts here and there.

I like to act with people that know what they're doing.

I'm a terrible sleeper. I get obsessive, repetitive thoughts and it's horrible.

To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again, — such are the essential conditions for the making of a people.

After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.

A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.

[on marriage equality] It literally is a threat to the nation's survival in the long run.