Your life is not a result of your potential, skills or desires, but of your consistent expectations and actions, which largely flow from your values and beliefs.

There is no failure, unless we fail to begin or we fail to continue.

Recognize, manage and master your beliefs. They aren’t genetic. They are choices. Choose ones that serve you.

Think, dream and expect great things. For would you rather be correct in your perception? Or would you rather be exceptional in your life?

Your life today is, for the most part, a manifestation of the stories you told yourself in the past.

Be careful what you look for and expect in life, because you will either find it or create it.

Leaders lead themselves first and foremost. Only then can they act as example and inspiration to others.

Growth or stagnation? There is no in-between. Life always seeks more of itself and death picks up the slack.

The leader acknowledges and eradicates the weeds in the garden, but keeps vision on the beauty they are creating and not on the weeds they are destroying

If you don’t know exactly where you are going (and why), that is exactly where you will end up.

If you don't know exactly what you want, that is exactly what you will get.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

Humor has great power to heal on an emotional level. You can't hold anger you can't hold fear you can't hold hurt while you're laughing.

I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.

Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome.

We are suffering. We have suffered. And we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause.

It must not simply be taken for granted that a given set of ill-assorted people, for no other reason than because it is Christmas, will be joyful to be reunited and to break bread together.

Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.

90% of toys are made in china, which technically makes the chinese elves

It's not what you know or who you know, but who knows you.

The body is a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels