Whatever your dream is, look yourself in the mirror and declare that you are indeed going to achieve it -no matter what the price.

To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.

In this there is no judgment and no blame, for we seek not to perfect the world but to perfect our love for what is on this earth.

Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.

Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will never see it again.

We are the hands, feet and mouthpiece of Christ. We are His ambassadors on Earth, called to stop injustice and restore His people.

For the average person walking down a dark street late at night, a promise from a politician is worth far less than a .38 Special.

The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.

But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.

The United States has been from the beginning greatly influenced and primarily influenced by the Judeo-Christian system of values.

A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform... therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.

Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.

We have all been placed on this earth to discover our own path, and we will never be happy if we live someone else's idea of life.

It's good to try stuff. I wrote a book that I threw away, and I think I just wrote it so I could try stuff in it and not be scared

My grandmother died when my mother was just 11 years old, and consequently, my mother never learned how to cook particularly well.

Ya called Fargo yet?” “No, I’ve been too busy trying to destroy the Guild and corrupt Simon’s soul. Being evil is a full-time job.

What I want in a good beach read is sunshine, drama, easy-reading and transportation to another world and other people's problems.

Most women experience issues of power and sexuality, but very few women talk about it. There's the threat of the loss of approval.

Every time I went to the doctor when I was in my twenties, he repeated the same thing to me: don't wait too long to have children.

You can't build your dream by what you're going to do or planning to do or intend to do. You only build your dream by building it.

There are always people who are going to be opportunistic when they see situations unfolding the way that they are in New Orleans.

Entrepreneurship is the ability to create and build from a vision practically anything; fundamentally it is a human, creative act.

This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.

the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

The calories in chocolate don't count because chocolate comes from the cocoa bean, and everyone knows that beans are good for you.

I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.

Whatever you do, do it for love. If you keep to that, your path will never wander so far from the light that you can never return.

It was simultaneously refreshing and a bit shocking to see how cavalierly most Aussies toss out slurs and insults about nonwhites.

We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.

Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works.

Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.

May I be at peace. May I awaken to the light of my own true nature. May I be healed and may I be the source of healing for others.

Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.

words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

I'm glad I've had the comic work. I plan to do others, but I could lay it down if I had to choose. I hope I don't have to, though.

Saying good night to the mountains, the sun throws his most beautiful rays to them, that they may not forget him till the morning.

I don't have to manage a big club. That won't fulfil me. I will get more satisfaction from the work that I put in than where I am.

Successful people don't have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.

The more credible you are, the more confidence people place in you, thereby allowing you the privilege of influencing their lives.

Passion gives you an advantage over others, because one person with passion is greater than ninety-nine who have only an interest!

Creative leaders inherently know when rules need to be challenged, and they can see when a more flexible approach should be taken.

The success of an entire advertising campaign may stand or fall on what is said in the headlines of the individual advertisements.

Truth is not a mystery - its greatest secrets are yours to know through simple honesty and surrender to what that honesty reveals.

Hi, I’m at the Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch, and I need an ambulance. The great love of my life has a malfunctioning G-tube.

You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it.

And I agreed, but still, she owed us an explanation. If she was up there, down there, out there, somewhere, maybe she would laugh.

The internet is necessarily public. It can be filtered-public or censored-public, but it necessarily has to be open and available.

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