Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.

Every single thing you do matters. You have been created as one of a kind. You have been created in order to make a difference. You have within you the power to change the world.

When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.

When faced with a decision, many people say they are waiting for God. But I understand, in most cases, God is waiting for me.

Life itself is a privilege, but to live life to the fullest- well, that is a choice.

Most people think it takes a long time to change. It doesn’t. Change is immediate! Instantaneous! It may take a long time to decide to change…but change happens in a heartbeat!

There are generations yet unborn, whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take.

Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.

Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it's to raise kids who become great adults.

Ask yourself this question everyday: What is it about me that other people would change if they could?

Do battle with the challenges of your present, and you will unlock the prizes of your future.

Benefit is the only blindfold required to convince ourselves that poison is wine. Liberty's comfort level rises and falls with the sympathies of its children. Well, I for one will not collaborate.

I felt a surge of love for my aunt. We disagreed about so many things, yet here was family: the people who kept dancing with you, even after the music stopped.

We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

One of the tricks that you have to learn, with episodic TV, is you don't know how many years you're going to be blessed with.

That difficult place to put your finger on about the world - it needs to be illustrated.

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

Luckily, I'm a governor - so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do.

If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now.

You have your children and it's hard to even hold it in - emotionally.

Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.