A closed door really is an open door in disguise.

Don't be in a hurry to achieve your dreams. Take a day to play with your kids and relax - your dreams will still be there tomorrow.

When you find a way to incorporate your goals and dreams with what you enjoy most, then you have found success!

Putting 100% effort into "trying" will always make you successful. With that in mind it's important to remember that the effort part is never easy.

If you want to know whether or not you have had a successful life, think about what people would say about you at your own funeral.

If you don't believe in yourself, who will?

To fail at trying is worse than to fail after trying. If we never try, then we never learn.

If you have friends and family who love you unconditionally - you truly have everything!

Forget about what you might have lost but instead focus on what you have room to gain.

All too often we fail to see the good in a difficult situation. Our minds are wired in such a funny way that we tend to believe just because a door closed it must be a bad thing.

If we never experienced the the valuable lessons from failure, then we would never truly appreciate the pure joy of our success.

Justice doesn’t talk. It sings!

We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.

I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether it's old cars or taxidermy or knitting.

The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.

For security you need more soldiers, you need more policemen, you need more vehicles, you need more planes, you need more guns, you need more communications.

There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.

A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.

I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of it all, not death but life.

Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.

I wasn't ever a massive David Essex fan, but I liked a few of his tracks, and Stardust was one of them.