Be willing to let go of who you are, to become who you might be

People think that the opposite of success is failure, but it's not. Failure is part of the process of success.

You don’t create your future. You create your daily habits, and they create your future.

When you get negative people out of your life, negative things stop happening to you.

You may think pain is a barricade to success, but it's usually a bridge.

You're not poor because you don't have money. You're poor if you don't have a dream.

Only acknowledge your limitations for the purpose of overcoming them.

For every person seeking greatness, there are hundreds more charged with safeguarding mediocrity. If you want to be wealthy, stop taking financial advice from broke people.

The next time your core beliefs are challenged - try being curious instead of furious.

Success without duplication is merely future failure in disguise.

Release what no longer serves you to create a space for that which does. And yes, sometimes this even means people.

Celebrate every small achievement and gain strength for grandeur things.

And telling you I care about you is a waste of time. I wouldn't have crossed the ocean, come out of hiding, tracked you down, if you didn't matter to me.

The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.

What does the divine sufferer (Jesus) demand from us? Only our faith, our love, our grateful praise, our consecrated hearts and lives. Is that too much to ask?

music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them.

The difference of a single day is perceptible. Vegetables can only be tasted in perfection, gathered the same day.

I saw a sneak preview of Jack Reacher and give two thumbs up to Tom Cruise. He did a great job with the role.

And in that sliver of time, I felt the power around me coalesce, malice-hard and sharp as crystal. That this analogy occurred to me should have been a warning.

Why you won an election and why you didn't is a subject of, you know, books that get written 20 years later.

What comes out of your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind.