Your life is constantly nourished by your thoughts. Whatever the direction your life is moving, your thoughts have led you there.

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.

No human, no matter how ancient, or how popular, can be above the laws of Nature.

Only when you explore the ecstasy of simply being, where even to breathe is a distraction, can you call yourself complete.

It is human to err but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

Beauty is my heritage and my core. But my passion is design for the spaces where we live and work.

Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.

If you have an offense against me, do you know you can't repent of my sin? You can only plead your own personal pardon at the throne of God.

Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.

I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.

Everybody loves a winner, but nobody loves a winner.

The Turkish road is not my model because I am critical of the way you are dealing with freedom of expression, of how you are dealing with the treatment of minorities, and your economic vision.