There's nothing that says you have to succeed in the same way as someone else. In fact, there's nothing that says you must define success in the same way as someone else.

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.

Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.

Grace-divine gives power for spirit of light to exist as a sacred-self.

If we do not master ourselves, we will be a slave to ourselves.

I wish I could invent a square, said everyone.

Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.

You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.

There are few problems in this world that cannot be solved by a swift roundhouse kick to the face. In fact, there are none.

War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.

There is no such thing as a strictly woman's problem. Any question affecting the welfare of society is a woman's problem.

I try not to think in terms of good and bad but more in terms of helpful or unhelpful in regards to specific moral codes and goals.