How can you possibly do everything you want to do in life if you start doing a bunch of things twice?

Keep a positive mind. Remember, a failed attempt doesn’t make you a failure—giving up does.

This is about me being ready to succeed.When I win in my mind, I truly win.Anything worthwhile deserves some time.I will do it this time! No excuses!

Visualization engages the mind and encourages the body.

Push today for what you want tomorrow!

Live in the present, but live for the future.

People aspire, learn, and grow when they are ready to commit to the process.

Don’t compromise your focus by comparing what you are trying to learn to what you already know. Focus in the moment, on what you are trying to learn now.

Keep an open mind and know that you can always learn more.

You must be grounded to take flight.

True confidence is born of experiencing your hard work and seeing your determination pay off.

To appear in heaven, let yourself disappear amongst the beauties of nature!

It's a luxury being a writer because all you ever think about is life.

I'm raising a daughter. I want to be able to say to her, "You can be anything you want. You can be the President of the United States." I'd love that.

I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.

Forgiveness is the path to healing.

The advice I will give my children, if and when they have Olympic aspirations, will be to go for it.

The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

The Republican Congress is like a groundhog afraid of its shadow when a government shutdown is talked about.

Sunscreen! It is a recent discovery and now I can't live without it - that and drinking lots of water and moisturizing.

Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure of Woman. It is paradoxical act of sadistic admiration.