When you start to accept responsibility for the results you get in life, you also take back the power to change your future outcome.

If you don't make the time to work on creating the life you want, you're eventually going to be forced to spend a LOT of time dealing with a life you don't want.

It is during our failures that we discover our true desire for success.

I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues.

I don't even drink! I can't stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year's Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don't touch booze - I'm always the designated driver.

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

One thing a leader does is to remove the stigma of mistakes.

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

I think comprehensive immigration reform while securing your border and dealing rationale with 11 million is the only way we're going to solve this problem.

The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own, the more it becomes our fate.

Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.