Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.

Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.

Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.

Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.

Winning is the science of being totally prepared.

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

If you stop focusing on all the reasons why you can’t do it, you just may surprise yourself to see what you can do.

Your strength is your ticket to persistence.Your mind is your ticket to brilliance.Your heart is your ticket to excellence.Your soul is your ticket to transcendence.

You're not a human till you're in my phone book. There. My hat is now in the political ring.

My mother and I were like two continents moving slowly but inexorably apart; my father, the bridge builder, constantly extending the fragile edifice he had constructed to connect us.

What's the furthest corner? Because that's where I want to be, alone with the only thing that I love.

I have always thought beach weddings are beautiful. A sunset ceremony with a beautiful sky, white drapes and fire lanterns.

George W. Bush was great on the belief that America was the solution to the world's problems, not the problem, and was a great defender, believer.

We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century.

I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.