If you accept excuses from others, it's usually because you have accepted your own excuse.

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.

The limiting factor on your success is not the size of the obstacles, but the size of your dream.

A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.

It's not the gifts you don't have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don't use.

Leaders begin with a different question than others. Replacing who can I blame with how am I responsible?

Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.

One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.

If you fill your head with positive thoughts, there won't be any room left for negative ones.

I'm really happy to be me, and I'd like to think people like me more because I'm happy with myself and not because I refuse to conform to anything.

It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.

Soberity makes me write dull songs about reorganizing the knick knacks in my house.

Do you know why they call a drummer's seat a throne? Because drummers are kings and queens.

One person's cult is another person's spiritual organization.

Deirdre Maddon has an extraordinary, almost celestial way of telling a story. There are so many great writers now - although I also want to go back and read all of Dickens again.

Meditation is the delicate art of doing nothing.

Motion is tranquility.

If we don't consciously plant the seeds of what we want in the gardens of our minds we'll end up with weeds.

Every time I have had a problem, I have confronted it with the ax of art.