To make people feel special you don't have to pay money but rather pay attention.

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.

The limiting factor on your success is not the size of the obstacles, but the size of your dream.

A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.

It's not the gifts you don't have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don't use.

Leaders begin with a different question than others. Replacing who can I blame with how am I responsible?

Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.

One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.

If you fill your head with positive thoughts, there won't be any room left for negative ones.

Freedom is found within, in the shape of our laughter and the way we love, in the truths that we live by and the stories we become

Lies spread quicker than truth because they have longer legs.

I wish to go on living even after my death.

Life is not always what we think it is.

Fiction is about what it is to be a human being.

And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought.

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

GOALS are dreams with deadlines, and without those deadlines, our dreams are dead in the water.

Stanley Cup winners don’t hand back the Stanley Cup.

The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place as easily overlooked as a bee's wing