Effective communication is the best way to solve problems.

I think you can measure how pathetic your life is by how much joy you get from learning about other people's faults and troubles.

The more I simplify my life, the happier I feel.

If you want to lead a family/team/organization, learn to lead/manage yourself first.

Success is a collection of small victories & disappointing setbacks. Understand the process, stay positive, & focus on the fundamentals.

Everything breaks; the only things that last are things you're willing to fix.

A great start to the perfect day - a world-class workout at the gym... It's hard to feel miserable after a great workout.

Surround yourself with positive people and positive influences.

Today make GOOD DECISIONS. Decide to selflessly serve others, to control your thoughts, to eat water-rich foods and to get lots of exercise.

Originality is so hip and cool, but to be original you must dare to be corny.

Talent is the discipline, commitment, and willpower to practice/train/study often, long, and hard. Discover your passion and pay the price.

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.

Jesus was victorious not because he never flinched, talked back, or questioned, but having flinched, talked back, and questioned, he remained faithful.

I would have grown up to be a gentleman adventurer if I were more of a gentleman.

Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.

The first draft is the child's draft, where you let it all pour out and then let it romp all over the place, knowing that no one is going to see it and that you can shape it later.

Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.

I think it bespeaks a generous nature, a man who can cook.

Please subdue the anguish of your soul. Nobody is destined only to happiness or to pain. The wheel of life takes one up and down by turn.

It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage.

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.