Vague goals produce vague results

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.

You cannot prove your worth by bylines and busyness.

Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.

For me there is a poesis, a poetics, around the trope of the road that is embedded within many life experiences of the people I've been close to.

You have to treat your employees like customers

People ask me, "What would you be doing without baseball?" I don't know... super-sizing fries?

If you're looking for friends when you need them...it's too late.

I don't like doing things that are too easy.

The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence

There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.