You may very well have good reasons for resentment, frustration and anger. But that doesn't mean those negative responses are good for you, or that you must choose them.

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.

If it looks real and feels real, do you think it matters if it's real?

I never understood why women wanted equality in the workplace when in fact, that would be selling them short.

In general, I like the healthy stuff and don't really have a problem with any of it.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.

I should like to see you try.

I have heard it said that living out of our vision is more powerful than living out of our circumstance.

I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.

Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.