While intent is the seed of manifestation, action is the water that nourishes the seed. Your actions must reflect your goals in order to achieve true success.

The road to success is always under construction.

I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love—then make that day count!

If you're not comfortable enough with yourself or with your own truth when entering a relationship, then you're not ready for that relationship.

It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts.

When you say "I" and "my" too much, you lose the capacity to understand the "we" and "our".

Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.

At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.

You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.

It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.

IMPERCEPTIBLE IMPELLENTGod exists in the heart, not in the show of religious alignment

He bursts out laughing. It's short, as if he regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction's already mine.

It takes time for people to get to know a cause or an organization.

To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.

I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.

College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.

America has never gotten in a war because we were too strong.

I'm not a fan of reality shows, but I am a fan of people who use their brains and skills and hard work to outsmart people, not to steal someone's man or get drunk on TV.

If, as I suspect, the American consumer now enters a sustained slowdown, there will be unmistakable reverberations on U.S.-centric export flows in many major regions of the world.

I think one of the reasons I'm so thrilled with writing is because it is an act of reading for me at the same time, which is why my revisions are so sustained.