“Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.”

Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.

Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you’ll have much to live for.

Let your mind see every detail of your own special version of the very best that life can be.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.

If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent.

Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

Look up from what you’re doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you’re in.

Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.

Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.

Your life is always moving toward something.

Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness.

Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.

If you so choose, each day can be filled with even more joy than the one before. If you so choose, even the most seemingly random events can work in your favor.

I had a babysitter when I was 12 or younger. I had a big crush on her.

Coming from a small town it was tough to dream big. When I grew up in a small town in Georgia, my biggest dream was one day to be able to go to Atlanta.

I think it’s fun to look at people with big diamonds.

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.

Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.

The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.

I wasted a lot of my talent in the ’90s because the money was so big, and I was making so much money,

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.