Success in life isn't only for the gifted or the privileged or those with a high IQ. Success is totally dependent on three things: persistence, determination and a positive mental attitude.

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.

Every action is grace divine.

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer. Come dream with me.

I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.

The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.

I'm not Amy the star, I'm Amy the girl with the guitar.

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

Your life's work begins when your great joy meets the world's great hunger.

I am so happy. I am so impossibly happy.

Acknowledgment of God is not now, or ever has been, a violation of the US constitution.

I've made this statement many times: If I would have to do it over again, I would have made known the forthcoming Tet Offensive.