The easiest way to maintain happiness is to lower your expectations of other people and raise them of yourself!

When we look for differences instead of similarities, we create barriers for trust.

Action and flexibility create opportunity

Goals are like the gas in your car, you may go in many different directions after you fill up, but with out the gas you are not going anywhere

Squirrels are just rats with good publicity

Knowledge is not power; Implementation is power

I cannot tolerate my bad behavior in another person for 10 seconds

Most of us forget the basics and wonder why the specifics don't work.

Practice makes polish and polish makes money.

If time heals all wounds, then why are there so many ticked off old people walking around.

You can't change people but you can effect a change in them by your behavior.

I wanted it to be you. I wanted your eyes to be locked with mine during every fear and tear experienced throughout my lifetime.

There is nothing more liberating than having your worst fear realized.

When I write, I do not like using ten dollar words. I like the fifty-centers. Everybody has fifty-cents, even those that are too proud to admit it.

Joy recollected is indeed no longer the emotion itself.

Ajihad: You are an enigma, Eragon, a quandary that no one knows how to solve.

Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.

When you meditate you are accessing eternity. You are plugging yourself into that source which is all light and all beauty and all perfection.

It is the rate of investment which governs the rate of saving, and not vice versa.

The problem for me is that reading is, I won't say a sacred, but nevertheless a pretty serious act.

If I have a weakness, it's that I try to live by the rules. I try to live by the rules, no matter what they are, and I was brought up that way as a kid. Play by the rules.