Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it. [at least it will feel like it!]

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.

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

Truth will flourish in fantasy, only to wither and die in what you are pleased to call reality.

But I really believe that if you have the ability, there is an obligation to make people laugh

How boring to copy the past -- with all the magnificence of today and tomorrow.

Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

I don’t care if the world or anyone in it tries to drag me down. Because I know that in the end, they will be the ones left tired from the struggle to hold me back.

What was this big sound bite, though, at the time? It was, "Will Donald Trump and his supporters accept the election results." He won.

If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.

It is well to be prepared for life as it is, but it is better to be prepared to make life better than it is.