When we can identify a problem and face the problem with confidence and enthusiasm, the solution is on the way.

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.

Sometimes you want to cry but the tears deceive you, but at other, you just want to hold the tears but they disobey you.

The greater part of our lives is spent in dreaming over the morrow and when it comes it too is consumed in the anticipation of a brighter morrow and so the cheat is prolonged even to the grave.

I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.

There is only one god and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: “Not today.

I still want to put together bigger and better programs to work with the community. I still think I could do better on that end.

Does God have a sense of humor? He must have if He created us.

The First Amendment means everything to me.

You ain't got to change the whole world. You just alter it a little bit and you redefine it into something beautiful.

Florence for me is not simply a city. Florence is a sentiment. And I think it's impossible to be a politician without sentiment.

There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art.