When you're not afraid to fail, you'll most certainly have the confidence to succeed.

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 you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.

If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own.

You are a worksmith and who cares for his brothers, whos not seduced by illusions or fair weather friends.

I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.

I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.

Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy.

I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in New York.

A lot of these young girls, they dont even know what the game is about. They have never seen a drop shot, a slice and all the mixture and variety I have.

Language is the archives of history.

Thoth's beak! You are impossibley stubborn." "Yeah, it's a gift.