Jump, then grow wings on the way down.

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.

Worship is invoking the divinity within. Meditation is awareness of divinity within. Enlightenment is realization of divinity within. Nirvana is being the divinity

We'll never feel safe again, and so it's bye-bye innocence. It's been nice knowing you, but you're gone now.

True wisdom is knowing what you don't know

With a teacher it is necessary to be sensitive to their directions; most of the time they won't say much. You have to be still and silent to understand.

The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images.

He was going to be armed with his wand - which, just now, felt like nothing more than a narrow strip of wood - against a fifty-foot-high, scaly, spike-ridden, fire-breathing dragon.

What the use of having ignorance if you can't show it?

A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.

It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy.

Don't worry, it's very clear that the painting was done by a human, most likely a human with one eye removed and a feverent if incorrect understanding of design and anatomy.