Irreverence is a declaration of independence.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they're moving toward getting it.

Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you're gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love.

Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone's gift - yours and mine.

Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.

You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

Isolation is a dream killer.

Love is divine and peaceful but hate is devilish and dreadful. So love everyone without judging them, you will be in peace always.

The day you call someone "Mother" is the day your pain is hers to bear, you burden hers to carry.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

I very rarely play the piano at home. Deliberately, so that when I do play it, I love it.

Anytime I can sneak in a moment to fish and ride horses, I'm a happy camper!

I think there's a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.

It's hard to do," I said. Wes looked at me. "What is?" I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out loud. "Get it right.

In the question of peace, people spoke up and demonstrated for peace and against the threat of war, the threat of atomic war.

Vodka eyeballing sounds great, but it's a slippery slope. Next, you'll be scotch nostriling, tequila nippling and, before you know it, Jager tainting.

To beat terrorism, there's only one candidate who can do it and it's Hillary Clinton.