Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

Life is slippery. Here, take my hand.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

I love that books allow us to experience other lives without us ever having to change where we live or who we are.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

What little light was left inside me flickered out.

But we're dying here.

You can't force other people to like you and you just kind of have to ride the wave. I think I could have saved myself a lot of sleepless nights with that advice.

I told them that my grandfather had died in the Great Crash of 1929 - a stockbroker jumped out of a window and crushed him and his pushcart down below.

I didn't like the way the game was being played.

Not enough people realize the satisfaction you can get from really pushing yourself to the limits.

Ever notice that nothing changes the color of paint like putting it on a wall?

Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.