Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they're moving toward getting it.

Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you're gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love.

Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone's gift - yours and mine.

Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.

You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

Isolation is a dream killer.

If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen.

Us girls deserve more than one song. We deserve more than one pledge of solidarity. We deserve better songs than any boy will ever write about us.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in itsvalue.

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

I've always had fond memories of cooking Thanksgiving.

I think it's a trial balloon to see what happens, and I'm not impressed with it.

Megachurches. I can't be the only one frightened when our houses of worship sound like they could take on Godzilla.

Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green light to simply make.

Television made a lot of difference in country music. It's progress. I believe in progress.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.