Living the dream.

Sometimes you just have to jump in a mud puddle because it's there. Never get so old that you forget about having fun.

Be a good human.

PATH TO SUCCESS: DREAM. PLAN. DO. FAIL. NEVER GIVE UP. FAIL. NEVER GIVE UP. FAIL. NEVER GIVE UP. ACHIEVE! IT'S A MESSY JOURNEY.

Kindness trumps everything. Kind people are magnets for all of the good things in life.

We change the world a little each day with our kindness.

Life can be frustrating sometimes. Take a nap, exercise, meditate or do whatever it takes to 'reboot' your thinking. Happiness is just a thought away!

Learning to appreciate the beauty that surrounds you is one of the keys to your happiness.

You always need to work hard. You always need to be willing to work hard. Not everything will be hard, but you should, at the very least, be willing to work hard.

We are what we must And not what we would be. I know that one hour Assures not another. The will and the power Are diverse.

Whatever good works ye send on before [death]... ye shall find with God.

Chess is and will always be a game of chance.

Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.

I'm not a feminist at all.

After decades of declining influence on the affairs of the world, there is once again a widespread consideration of spritual principles as an antidote to the pain of our times.

I think all of Europe has been too soft on the refugee crisis.

So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together, edge to edge, could they even begin to tell the whole story.

Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't.

I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of the difficulty of voice communication.