Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you.

When I read poetry, I read it aloud. It's so much better that way.

If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.

You have two choices: You can come down from the mountain and spend the rest of your days thinking it was so beautiful there, or you can create a vision, look upward, see the next mountain, and start the climb all over again.

I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn’t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn’t have been lucky.

The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is joy.

You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person.