To gain self-respect, you need to put yourself first.

Extend your "best before" date by living a youthful life.

Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck.

Once you figure out what you want in life—expect nothing less.

No one can take the shot for you.

When the awareness of what is achievable brushes your life, your journey has begun.

It's sometimes easier to help others rather than helping yourself. The trick is to listen to your "self" as a friend. This may be the simplest change you ever make in life, with the biggest impact.

Upon achieving a lifelong dream, I thought, this is the way to live your life -- in the moment, and to the fullest.

When healthy competition prevails -- you come out to play and you play to win.

Needs cause motivation. Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self-actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need in our lives.

The decide word is so powerful. It's amazing what you can do once you decide to do it.

The ultimate purpose of education is to learn how to find and see the beauty of creation so that you may feel the joy of life.

The place we get lost is the very place that we're found, all we need to do is put one foot in front of the other.

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you will cease to be so.

Nothing has to be accepted just because we inherited it.

It is a paradoxical statement, but it takes incredible personal discipline to play with great freedom.

There's a real simple analogy. You have to perceive it from the ground up. You have to lay a firm foundation, then every step becomes part of a logical process.

There's always a message in my comedy.

Be funny on a golf course? Do I kid my best friend's mother about her heart condition?

O Seeker, pain and suffering make one aware of God.