I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.

For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

Make a conscious effort to surround yourself with positive, nourishing, and uplifting people -- people who believe in you, encourage you to go after your dreams, and applaud your victories.

Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.

Decide what it is you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.

You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

Each of us is born with a life purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take.

When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.

Don't deny your parents a chance at happiness and also an opportunity to see you achieve greatness.

What makes one person approachable and another one not? That simple difference alone can make or break your success in your life, in your relationships, and in your career.

In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.

In a world where for pedagogic and other purposes a very large number of economists is required, an arrangement which discourages many of them from

Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.

Roland La Starza was tough, but Ezzard Charles was the toughest man I ever fought. I learned what pain was all about when I fought him.

I am especially indebted to a 10th grade English teacher who encouraged me to read great works of literature.

Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men.

If your life's worth living, it's worth recording.

If I for my opinion bleed, opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt, and keep me on the side where still I am.