Circumstances do not create the quality of your life.

When we look for differences instead of similarities, we create barriers for trust.

The easiest way to maintain happiness is to lower your expectations of other people and raise them of yourself!

Action and flexibility create opportunity

Goals are like the gas in your car, you may go in many different directions after you fill up, but with out the gas you are not going anywhere

Squirrels are just rats with good publicity

Knowledge is not power; Implementation is power

I cannot tolerate my bad behavior in another person for 10 seconds

Most of us forget the basics and wonder why the specifics don't work.

Practice makes polish and polish makes money.

If time heals all wounds, then why are there so many ticked off old people walking around.

In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center.

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

When bad strikes, most likely you will not get an answer when you ask, “Why?” Your strength must come from having faith that someday the answer will come and then it will all make sense.

Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.

Believe me that in every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles-big or small- and the reaction one shows to such obstacles is what counts, not the obstacle itself.

Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that are not.

I'm happier in the way a guy gets happier when he starts to mature. It doesn't make things easier, but I'm so much better at handling them.

The possibilities are endless for me - Broadway, TV, music and film.

Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight.

We discussed this very important issue yesterday over a beer.