Ask yourself this question CONSTANTLY: where can I add the most value to what matters most to me and the people who care about me?

Don't settle. Don't finish crappy books. If you don't like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you're not on the right path, get off it.

Cultivate visibility because attention is currency.

Your day is your week is your month is your year.

Marketers need to build digital relationships and reputation before closing a sale.

Stories are how we learn best. We absorb numbers and facts and details, but we keep them all glued into our heads with stories.

Fear is at the heart of most of our worst choices.

Social media puts the "public" into PR and the "market" into marketing.

The goal isn't more money. The goal is living life on your terms.

Your excuses will never be as good as the story of how you got it done.

If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.

To ask, 'How do you do it?' is already starting off on the wrong foot. When reaching for the stars, there does not have to be a 'how' if there is a big enough 'why'.

Mrs. Reed grabbed Kayla's wrist. "Good. You haven't gotten that damned tattoo. Whatever you do, don't let them make you get it.

The bird music sank into her, like a song you used to know but forgot long ago. You hear a piano play it some day, and for a minute you feel a happy pain, but you don't know why. Bird felt like that.

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

Once you start being a muse, you cannot stop being a muse.

Knowing that I'm not a model and I'm never going to be has relieved me of the pressure of looking good. If you don't establish yourself as McDreamy then you don't have to live up to it.

How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent and God will speak again.

As a lifelong Oregonian, I prefer our forests green, not black.

State intentions every day. Create action plans to achieve your intention.

I go to the dentist, not a shrink.