You have to give yourselfpermission to be happy.Nobody else can give it to you.

Sometimes being happy willrequire some difficult conversations.Some of those conversationswill be with yourself.

If someone tries to undermineyour commitment, re-evaluateyour commitment to them.

Identify your driving motivationand you will have all theencouragement you need.

To be happy, you need to dothe right thing for you, even when it feels like thehardest thing in the world.

Live your life with courageousintegrity. Do the right thing, not the easy thing.

There is a big difference betweenbeing self-ist and being selfish—putting yourself first doesn’t meanyou have to put everyone else last.

The most importantcommitment you will ever makeis to being the best you can be.

Being the best you can betakes courage. You need to ownyour decisions and have thecourage to see them through.

It’s easy to be brave wheneverything is going your way.When the going gets tough, it takes courage to followthe path you believe in.

Be honest with yourself.You can’t be the bestyou can be unless you knowwho you really are.

The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets. That is what brings us so full of longing to the sea.

I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London.

I have to be perfectly honest: You should have an anniversary to acknowledge the way I work the ebonics.

Show me an 'easy person,' and I will show you a selfish one. Good-natured he may be; why not? since the disastrous consequences of his 'easiness' are generally shouldered by other people.

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

Life is not as easy as it could be for a person with a disability.

Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have two chairs with a table in the middle. And we sit down and it's like, Tell me your problems.

Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.

We have done some of these in Bangladesh. Whenever I see a problem, I immediately go and create a company. That's what I did all my life.

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.