We’ve been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can’t do – about what is impossible.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

I couldn’t say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

I’m an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I’ll go stand in the corner.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Well, you know, I’m the forever optimist.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

People may think I’m trying something new by telling stories, but they’re just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That’s what I do.

We’re all insecure, aren’t we? I’m not walking around like I’m macho man or anything.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, ‚The Intoxication of Life,‘ ‚The Purpose of Life,‘ ‚The Real Cause of Man’s Distress,‘ ‚The Journey to the Goal in Life,‘ and, one of my favorites, ‚The Heart of Man.‘ They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

I love being busy.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

My secret to staying young… Having no sense of time.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.