In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real.

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.

When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.

It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Our existence has always and everywhere been tragic, but man has converted these numberless tragedies into works of art. I know of nothing more astonishing or more wonderful than this transformation.

You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise.

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.

One mistake, one brief lapse of my new found judgement-that's all it took to unravel everything. What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature.

All my roots are still in the prarie country of the Middle West.

One cannot always marry the person one loves.

The idea that education can ever be value-neutral is absurd.

No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.

Anything that you throw comes back. All your actions are echoes.

My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left.