When you've done all you can, do just a little bit more. Any extra effort you make will draw immense leverage from all the ordinary efforts which have preceded it. That can be powerful and effective.

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.

I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.

Similitude of the heart is like that of a telephone operator between man and God.

It never stops to amaze me how God sends the right people at the right stage of your life as a confirmation to let you know that you're not crazy.

I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.

Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate

It's the ciiiiiiiiiiiiircle of liiiiiiiiiife!" Iggy sang

Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing.

If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

I have a great band. Oh, man. I'm so happy about them.

Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.