You cannot expect to get the effect when you neglect to create the cause.

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.

Be afraid of nothing but be aware of everything.

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

The action of Rosa Parks, the words and leadership of Dr. King inspired me. I was deeply inspired. I wanted to do something.

Linux doesn't have IP roots.

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.

Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

I just wanted to go to a place where I would feel happy and I am happy now.

If right now, culture's so divisive, it just leaves these millions of people like me out.

Being Grateful. That is the first step on the path to Joy.

To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain.