You have created your fears. And you can choose to lay them to rest. You have created your dreams. And you can choose to bring them fully to life.

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.

When you say to someone "follow your heart", it actually refers to the rhetorical representation of various emotions, that are precisely produced from neural activity of the limbic system.

Candy corn. For Halloween that is my favorite candy, but it doesn't come around that often and I like that.

My creative life is a constant struggle to achieve a balance between letting things flow in and letting things flow out.

A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage.

The world is going mad at an accelerating rate and television is the Typhoid Mary of this madness.

Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

I'm gonna live forever, or die trying.

The key to success is not through achievement, but through enthusiasm.

If you're a kid who was not especially a star in your high school, I recommend going to a college in the middle of nowhere. I got all the attention I could ever have wanted.

God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.