It's no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?

So to all who are situated as I am, I would say--Grow up as fast as you can.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

If they didn't take you seriously, they would never see you coming.

Being a Buddhist monk means never losing one's optimism in spite of all difficulties. It also means being harder on yourself than any of your teachers ever were.

Holy Scripture is the highest authority for every believer, the standard of faith and the foundation for reform.

Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.

I'm the woman who used to think that middle-age spread was a cocktail dip.

Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.