Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.

"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life."

"The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited."

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

"Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on."

"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking, risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."

"When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen."

"The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser-in case you though optimism was dead."

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

" A person's worth is contingent upon who he is. Not upon what he does, or how much he has. The worth of a person, or a thing, or an idea, is in being, not in doing, not in having."