It's surprising how many people get bogged down in analysing, planning, and organizing when what they really need to do is take action.

For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

Make a conscious effort to surround yourself with positive, nourishing, and uplifting people -- people who believe in you, encourage you to go after your dreams, and applaud your victories.

Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.

Decide what it is you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.

You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

Each of us is born with a life purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take.

When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.

Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.

Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever.

A leader is the one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries.

When you're writing a song with someone, it's a very personal process. The music has to be an organic experience, it can't be contrived, sometimes it is and I think people pick up on that.

One does not fall "in" or "out" of love. One grows in love.

Maybe it's time to stop creating God in our image and let Him create you in His.

With life many things are remedied.

In my more pompous moments I like to think of myself as a writer rather than a humorist, but I suppose that's merely the vanity of advancing age.

Don't cry, you will have good memories from now on.