When someone is nasty or treats you poorly, don't take it personally. It says nothing about you, but a lot about them.

Don't let others define you. Don't let the past confine you. Take charge of your life with confidence and determination and there are no limits on what you can do or be.

Take pride in how far you've come. Have faith in how far you can go. But don't forget to enjoy the journey.

The key to a better life: Complain less, appreciate more. Whine less, laugh more. Talk less, listen more. Want less, give more. Hate less, love more. Scold less, praise more. Fear less, hope more.

People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world.

Pretty isn't beauty. Pretty is how you look; Beauty is who you are. Pretty is in the face and body; Beauty is in the heart, mind and soul. Pretty fades; Beauty grows.

Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges; whether we seize them or not, the New year will bring new opportunities.

What will matter is not your success but your significance.

Success in anything important rarely comes without the Five Horsemen of Success: planning, effort, positivity, perseverance and resilience.

The surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don't dwell.

Personal integrity is important, not because it gets us what we want, but because it helps us be what we want.

The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can’t, you’re dead

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested.

Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

Every man is his own hell.

Good design should reflect a sense of human history-some aspect of where we've come from.

God is always faithful to His promises, but He often surprises us in the way He fulfills them.

In two words," said Alan quietly, "there is nothing I love half as much as you.