When you shut down the giving you shut down the receiving.

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

You get whatever you expect to get. The only question is. What do you want?

When you know clearly what you want, you'll wake up every morning excited about life.

By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.

Goals are a preview of future events and experiences in your life.

End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you'. Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.

It's time to stop tiptoeing around the pool and jump into the deep end, head first. It's time to think big, want more and achieve it all!

Imitate until you emulate; match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.

Believe that you have a destiny to be great.

Continued persistence overcomes almost all resistance.

The true source of happiness is within each of us.

A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.

I'm a Pilates person. It's great. I had a hip problem. I had a chronic back, a pinched nerve and a hip problem and it's completely solved all of it. I love it. It makes me feel like I'm taller.

I loved the feeling of talking and having somebody really listen to what I have to say. It was like a high or something.

The combination of what's written and just being in the moment is always the best way. You gotta start out with something solid and then you play.

It is clear that whatever language of democracy [Barack] Obama and his administration use is very tactically deployed, and has as its main aim the extension of US power and interests.

I walk, I look, I see, I stop, I photograph.

The military taught me discipline, how to problem solve, teamwork and loyalty, a perfect parallel to the kitchen. If we could take that and bottle it, it would be a amazing thing.

If it's not a contract I want then I won't sign it. That's not a threat.