God didn't have time to make a nobody, only a somebody.I believe that each of us has God-given talents within us waiting to be brought to fruition.

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Every achievement, big or small, begins in your mind.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

Never give up, because you never know if the next try is going to be the one that works.

The greatest pollution problem we face today is negativity. Eliminate the negative attitude and believe you can do anything. Replace 'if I can, I hope, maybe' with 'I can, I will, I must.

No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two heavy layers of praise.

Don't let the negatives of life control you. Rise above them. Use them as your stepping stones to go higher than you ever dreamed possible

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

How his hatred seethed in search of a justifiable excuse.

Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling.

I'm not Josh Brolin or Ryan Gosling. They're more noir than I.

Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.

It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life.

I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.

Nirvana isn't a physical place. It is not like going to heaven. It just means no more individualized awareness, no aggregate body of experience.

He says one word, nodding into the daylight. "Look." It's an astounding word. It's a gift.

We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.