When the path becomes difficult, that's no reason to give up. In fact, it means you're making real progress.

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

Be someone who listens, and you will be heard. Be someone who cares, and you will be loved. Be someone who gives, and you will be blessed. Be someone who comforts, and you will know peace.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

Achievement does not require extraordinary ability. Achievement comes from ordinary abilities applied with extraordinary persistence.

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.

Life does not owe you anything, because life has already given you everything.

You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.

Spread the seeds of encouragement far and wide, and delight in the bountiful harvest that they will surely bring.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

I've discovered a way to stay friends forever - There's really nothing to it. I simply tell you what to doAnd you do it!

And you know what I realize now? That we're all waiting on something, no matter where we are in life. It's the human condition.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

I'm passionate. I find if I really believe something, I want to put my entire being behind it.

Today, only about 1% of the World Wide Web is written in Arabic.

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

I'm a bit uncomfortable, truth be told, with being seen as an expert, because there is always so much more to learn. I see myself as a perpetual student of the goddess.

I was an only child. I did have kind of like a lonely existence.

Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art - it's a fun group activity.

Let no one who has the slightest desire to live in peace and quietness be tempted, under any circumstances, to enter upon the chivalrous task of trying to correct a popular error.