“Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.”

Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions.

The more you discipline yourself to use your time well, the happier you will feel and the better will be the quality of your life in every area.

There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.

The more you teach positive ideas to others, the better you learn them yourself.

Invest the first hour of the day, the ‘Golden Hour,’ in yourself.

Your brain has more than 100 billion cells, each connected to at least 20,000 other cells. The possible combinations are greater than the number of molecules in the known universe.

Never settle for anything less than your best.

Take a deep breath, relax and imagine yourself exactly as you wish to be.

If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you’re letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.

Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.

Activity equals results. If you want to increase your success, increase your activity.

The world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and motivate them to be the kind of people they wish they could be. The problem is that no one is coming to the rescue.

Your ability to get along well with others will determine your happiness and success as much as any other factor.

Your persistence is your belief in yourself.

Intense, burning desire is the motivational force that enables you to overcome any obstacle and achieve almost any goal.

In the final analysis, you always get paid for your results.

You’ve changed. And for that I’m proud. My loyalty is to you always. Not just the person I met.

Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.

It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing’s going to change.

Love is like the North Star. In a changing world, it’s always constant.

We look in our own backyard and say, ‘How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?’

After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it’s worse than ever.

Forgiveness changes the way we remember.

I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I’m basically the same person I was when I won ‘Idol,’ or when I was 10.