2. Plenty vs Lack I can afford what I want in life, there is plenty of everything in the world from resources, love, relationships, wealth and opportunities.

In life, our mindset determines which road we travel on. One road is paved in scarcity and the other road is filled with abundance at every turn. In any moment, we can choose to change which road we want to travel on.

The secret to having it all is believing you already do

1. Thinking Big vs Thinking Small Thinking Big opens horizons, lifts limitations in my mind and enables me to achieve higher goals.

You never get beyond scarcity, you have to start beyond it.

3. Happiness vs Resentment I am optimistic and I can be genuinely happy for others.

4. Embracing Change vs Fear Of Change Change is an natural part of life and can create beautiful outcomes, but sometimes the transitions can be painful. Search for the good.

5. Proactive vs Reactive I actively create my future based on my values, priorities and goals.

6. Learning vs Knowing It All My natural curiosity and my thirst for knowledge help me to constantly develop and improve my skills.

7. What Is Working vs What Is Not Working I am focusing on "What is working", I am open minded and like to explore and try new opportunities.

I never solicited a major label and I certainly wouldn't now.

The sun never stops shining sometimes you just have to look beyond the clouds to see it.

Victory is in the quality of the competition, not just the final score.

Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place.

Real life is crazier than fiction.

It is very important for me that my clothes are comfortable and allow me to feel like myself and at ease.

Most good essays are conversations with yourself not just your decided thoughts but your dilemmas.

I've never been a planner. I didn't know I was going to run for the State House. I didn't know I was going to run for governor. I don't know what's next, and I love not thinking about it because the doors open at a certain time.

I've been very lucky to have been able to act, write and direct and not have to choose just the one thing.

There's a Biblical mandate to reach out to those who are the orphans, the widows in their distress, to take care of the stranger in your land. But that does not mean citizenship.

Forth & Towne was a great test of a promising concept and an illustration of the innovative risks you need to take in our business. We made the tough decision to close the brand and focus our efforts on stabilizing the existing businesses.

This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.

A book reaches a different crowd of people. There are 50 different stories of very different individuals participating in their communities either locally or nationally in meaningful ways.

The groups that have awarded them are all a little different. It's a little hard to single out any one for that, but I think the dedication of this building would have to go toward the top of the list.

Realistically, it's the great truism that screenwriters are fungible, that at the end of the day a studio is not going to want to fire a movie star. And they're really not going to want to fire a star director because the director has the hand on the tiller of a ship.

Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.

Nobody really invents anything that hasn't been done before.

Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

A man who is available for lunch, has no wife, is interested in everything, and talks well is socially invaluable.

Why do only boys get to chase? Nuh-uh! If anything, I think this whole sitting back and waiting thing can be self-sabotaging. We have to send up flares. We have to let guys know we're open for business.

Every single kid in my group of friends at school was from a single-parent family.

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.