The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude.

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.

Always look into the future when deciding how to use your time in the present.

How can I seek forgiveness for sins I haven't committed yet?

You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.

The best kisses have something behind it - maybe something has been smoldering for a while, and it's about to happen.

I look upon [writing about religion] as a nice way to get by in this precarious world, though I've never been able to do it myself.

In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

You can look at a slum or a peasant village, but it is only by entering into the world - by living in it -that you begin to understand what it is like to be powerless, to be like Christ.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.

Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh.

If you are out in two races and someone else has a good couple of races, it could change. So all we do is try to get the optimum every time.