Adversity relieves people of vanity and egotism. It discourages selfishness by proving that no one can succeed without the cooperation of others.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

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

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

Number of empty Ben & Jerry's containers: 3 -- two mint chocolate cookie, one plain vanilla. (Who buys plain vanilla ice cream from Ben & Jerry's, anyway? Is there a greater waste?)

Discontent is want of self-reliance it is infirmity of will.

O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.

Success gave me confidence as an artist. And now I'm able to do what I want without anybody thinking it's dumb.

There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it.

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.

I am Eloise. I am six. I live at the Plaza hotel.

It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right.

Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.