Your greatness is revealed not by the lights that shine upon you, but by the light that shines within you.

A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it.

Following all the rules leaves a completed checklist. Following your heart achieves a completed you.

People who insist on dividing the world into 'Us' and 'Them' never contemplate that they may be someone else's 'Them'.

The tribe often thinks the visionary has turned his back on them. When, in fact, the visionary has simply turned his face to the future.

Nothing releases like forgive. Nothing renews like forget.

Patience is not passive waiting. Patience is active acceptance of the process required to attain your goals and dreams.

Our minds are information vacuums. Either we fill them with thoughts of our choosing or someone else will.

Tolerance only for those who agree with you is no tolerance at all.

Knowing the path through the forest doesn't make the trip any less daunting. Knowing the steps to your dreams doesn't make the climb any less of a challenge.

Everything around you that you call life was made up by people, and you can change it.

The spirit is the mirror

Dumb ideas come from people who have dumb brains

Suicide is like the ejector button in the cockpit of an F-15. If life goes into a permanent tail spin, it's nice to know the option is there.

That's always a cool thing to be the voice of what the eyes are seeing. It gives you the role of the Greek chorus and that's always fun to do.

How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.

See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

The everyday choices I make regarding money will influence the very coarse of eternity.