If you become a giver, you'll make them feel like they want to reciprocate.

If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown.

Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.

Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.

No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.

Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.

If you must doubt something, doubt your limits.

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

Excellence calls for character . . . integrity . . . fairness . . . honesty . . . a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board.

So let your deepest desires direct your aim. Set your sights far above the 'reasonable' target. The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire that stirs the heart.

We can't win the struggle for high standards if we just talk a good game . . . we've got to play a good game.

corporate America corrupted the watchdogs that were supposed to be guarding the public interest by feeding them under the table.

Knowing is different from doing and therefore theory must never be used as norms for a standard, but merely as aids to judgment.

An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.

Paul Scholes is the best player I've ever played with. There's talent in every part of his game.

Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.

I link dar's many a slaveholder'll git to Heaven. Dey don't know no better. Dey acts up to de light dey hab.

A democratic organization has to dare to do the right at all costs.

To laughter! The bright coinage of the bank of good will.

I definitely live for the small moments and the big moments.

At the current pace of change, we won't have universal access to education in 100 years, let alone five, and that is unacceptable.