Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

If we say it long enough eventually we’re going to reap a harvest. We’re going to get exactly what we’re saying.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

I will not be triumphed over.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

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.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

The stories are not autobiographical, but they’re personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I’ve learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

I don’t blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they’ll realize there’s more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.

It’s important for me to let my fans know I really don’t care. I’m confident.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.