Confidence is a resolute state of mind by which you believe nothing is impossible.

You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.

Thinking is a habit, and like any other habit, it can be changed; it just takes effort and repetition.

As soon as anyone starts telling you to be "realistic," cross that person off your invitation list.

Exceptional thinkers ignore their critics and go about their business making history.

What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform.

If you really want to find out what you're capable of, you cannot put limits on yourself, and you definitely cannot be cautious.

Stick with your own perception of yourself-living in your own world-and letting your reality, not the reality presented by other people or particular situations, control your performance.

Overachievers don't think reasonably, sensibly, or rationally.

Superstars think like superstars long before the fans or the press anoint them.

Confidence is not a guarantee of success, but a pattern of thinking that will improve your likelihood of success, a tenacious search for ways to make things work.

MIGHT, something God only has.

I visit you in my dreams and you talk to me in songs. Each sentence is a bridge taking me closer to the city that you are.

When an author sleeps, her brain creates more stories for her pen.

In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.

The more you read the Bible, the more transform your life will be.

...but he tightened his grip so he could kiss my mangled middle finger. Yes, yes, I know. He put his mouth on a part of my body. I'm surprised I'm still conscious enough to talk about it.

It is a defeat of the spirit to learn one's arrogance causes such loss and pain. Pride invites you to soar to heights and the footing, tentative. farther, then, is the fall.

Is racial violence is the answer for happened racial violence? Which planet am I? Where are the people who taught me there is no difference? Why?

If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.

Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.