The Chicken Soup for the Soul books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches.

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.

Every challenge you encounter in life is a fork in the road. You have the choice to choose which way to go - backward, forward, breakdown or breakthrough.

Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.

Bernard King is the only guy that ever scared the hell out of me.

It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all.

Suffering is the price of being alive, and it is music and singing and art that has helped me live through some of the most difficult things that have happened to me.

Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.

I do recognize that India has to be the center, the hub of activity as far as the knowledge economy is concerned.

For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better.

When we seek appreciation from others, we get not appreciation, but flattery.

As long as the wrong people hold power, how can the right political climate even arise?