Though the universe is delightfully complex, life, at its heart, is not particularly complicated. Live true to who you are and though it won't always be easy, you'll live well.

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.

I wasn’t crying, but my heart was crying. I wasn’t feeling, but my heart was bleeding. Now I am crying, but my heart is healing. I am learning that I know nothing.

His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back.

When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.

If you look at Libya, I was deeply concerned about what would happen after Qaddafi was gone.

I have tried to remain a working, cutting-edge journalist and I don't do it the way everybody else does it. And I think that's the difference.

When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long. [Lat., Nulla unquam de morte cunctatio longa est.]

Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

Two Navy SEALs versus one angry seven-month-old," he mused, "The odds could go either way.

The earth is all the home I have, the heavens my wide roof-tree