Your habits will determine your quality of life.

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.

I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.

In thee my soul shall own combined the sister and the friend.

Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.

I wonder how Colin Powell sleeps at night. I would like to have a word with him because he lied. He lied. He lied to me. He lied to my face through the camera at the U.N.

That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.

Reality is something you rise above.

If we forget who we lost, then we forget who we once were, and if we forget who we once were, we lose sight of who we are now.

Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.

I try to reach out to my idols.

Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library.