Accomplishment comes from making positive efforts, even in the face of negative circumstances.

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

Be someone who listens, and you will be heard. Be someone who cares, and you will be loved. Be someone who gives, and you will be blessed. Be someone who comforts, and you will know peace.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

Achievement does not require extraordinary ability. Achievement comes from ordinary abilities applied with extraordinary persistence.

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.

Life does not owe you anything, because life has already given you everything.

You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.

Spread the seeds of encouragement far and wide, and delight in the bountiful harvest that they will surely bring.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

Busy days galore...thoughts in a kaleidoscope of dervish dances.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

I'm the kind of guy that if I don't work out, I will get bigger and look like one of the guys who used to play sports.

Jon: Have you seen the wall? | Sam: I'm fat, not blind.

I don't want people to forget Babe Ruth. I just want them to remember Henry Aaron.

Loss means losing what was. We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.

Things, very strange things, happen in folktales and there is never much attention given to the whys and wherefores.

Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.