You can't control the cards you're dealt, just how you play the hand.

The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.

When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him.

It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.

Don’t complain; just work harder.

Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.

Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the time.'

He's threatening to breed polo ponies, but he's always been a man of great ideas, but little action, so I don't suppose he will.

If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible.

Behold God beholding you...and smiling.

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

An attack on public education is an attack on democracy.

O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.

I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.

Joy is not like happiness, unhappiness. It is singular.

I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.