Winners win not because they're allowed to, but because they decide to.

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.

We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days … or hours.

This is a hard truth for some to accept: that a lack of resources may not be their true constraint, just a lack of resourcefulness.

Memory is more indelible than ink.

I wasn’t in love with Daniel. I only met him an hour ago. That was impossible. Wasn’t it?

A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.

Writing gets easier once you know your allies and banish your enemies.

My loyalty is first and foremost, to the people of Singapore. It has always been so, and will always remain so.

Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.

I'm not an experimental artist. I have no talent for that. I need a certain kind of antecedent form to follow.