When something feels right, that means it is right for you. Pay attention to your authentic feelings, and follow where they lead.

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.

The future sneaks up on us. It leaks in through the small, ordinary things.

What alarms me most is the fact that, even when God has now raised up a voice to speak on these issues, many sincerely believe that I am in error or at worst that I am doing something utterly wrong

Still, truth is how I remember it now. In a way, I am changing the past from my desk here in the future as I write. It always happens like this. This is how we all tell our story.

I have 120 people in my payroll without any government giving me any money. We live off the tickets and the records I sell. That is very unusual.

The music is all we care about -- so if that's bad, then we're bad.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Everybody has fear. The difference is that the coward does not control fear and the brave... gets over it.

I say yes to almost anything that comes my way.

For me the moment of death will be a moment of jubilation, not of fear. I cried when I was born and I shall die laughing.

Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.