Learn to listen. It's amazing the ideas that pop into your head while people are saying them into your ear.

There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses.

Stored away in some brain cell is the image of a long-departed aunt you haven't thought of in 30 years. Stored away in another cell is the image of a pink pony stitched on your first set of baby pajamas. All it takes to get that aunt mounted on the back of that pony is to eat a hunk of meatloaf immediately before going to bed.

We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.

A toast once heard: "To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I'd found my first."

There is nothing in this world you cannot accomplish if you are willing to forfeit your deposit.

It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there.