You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.

Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.

If we should promise people nothing better than only revolution they would scratch their heads and say 'Isn't it better to have good goulash?'

Be more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, always offering respect onto others and never expecting any in return

I'm an African-American writer, I'm a lazy writer, I'm a writer who likes to watch The Wire, I'm a writer who likes to eat a lot of steak.

I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound perch in my lake.

It's more fun to think that there are other worlds.

If you can fix a problem with money, it's not really a problem.

We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here.

I loved Laurel and Hardy and TV shows like 'Robin Hood' and 'Rama of the Jungle'.

He can play that leg glance with a walking stick also.