For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don’t want to be a colony in a nation.

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again – as I always am when I write.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

I always make my dreams into goals.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I’ve had my breasts lifted – but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

I don’t see myself as a philosopher. That’s awfully boring.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

A smart girl leaves before she is left.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

There’s an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they believe they’ve ‚nailed it,‘ most people tend to sit back and rest on their laurels while countless others will be labouring furiously to better their work!

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

If you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.

I used to have nightmares that they would put ‚He played Ted‘ on my tombstone.