Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves For a bright manhood there is no such word As fail.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious to me that escape had to be through education.

There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?

When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire.

I never forget my three word mantra: "Never start caring."

The book is the book and it will always be there. It's a quiet ending. In the book it's a contemplative ending which I think you could certainly do that in a movie.

The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.