Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life.

To earn more, you must learn more.

A goal without a plan is only a dream.

Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.

Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.

There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.

The glue that holds all relationships together ... is trust, and trust is based on integrity.

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

Stories about lives remembered bring us backward while allowing us to move forward.

The night seemed suddenly defiled by the absence of music, as if the silence itself was injecting a sickness that only another song could cure.

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.

I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.

Don't be reluctant about putting on overalls!

The boy I just kissed is talking to my father. The boy I want to kiss again is waiting for my mother to serve pancakes. I must fight the urge to freak.

I got rid of all those reporters.

Color, like everything else concerning visual expression, usually boils down to a gift, an innate sensibility and sensitivity. Ultimately, artists develop their own palette and color sense.