Instead of jumping at the chance to be offended, choose to be amused. Rather than filling your thoughts with resentment, fill your heart with forgiveness.

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

Be someone who listens, and you will be heard. Be someone who cares, and you will be loved. Be someone who gives, and you will be blessed. Be someone who comforts, and you will know peace.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

Achievement does not require extraordinary ability. Achievement comes from ordinary abilities applied with extraordinary persistence.

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.

Life does not owe you anything, because life has already given you everything.

You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.

Spread the seeds of encouragement far and wide, and delight in the bountiful harvest that they will surely bring.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

In writing I am seduced by the sound of words and by the interaction of their sound and sense.

Hire new field systems maintainer" was near the top of my to-do list, right under "uncover massive political conspiracy, " "avenge Buffy's death, " and "don't die.

I want everyone to look back and think that I was awesome.

I want people to feel that they've gotten to know the people in the film a little bit, gotten to see Pine Ridge in ways they haven't seen before. I think that's a good start.

If you're going to drive a Hummer and buy carbon offsets, that's like getting drunk every night and getting into an AA meeting, throwing money in the basket, and leaving.

I get tired of singing to the guys I beat up in motion pictures.

Indistinctness is my forte.

Maybe a reason why all the doors are closed So you can open one that leads you to the perfect road.

We know we are falling from grace, millennium.

Kings and such are just as funny as politicians.