Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life.

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.

You were created on purpose for a purpose. There is a thirst and hunger in your heart that is real. Pay attention to it.

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

When hope seems like a faded memory, remember love and hope will return stronger than ever.

Success is not greedy as people think but insignificant. That's why it satisfies nobody.

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire's money.

It's not unilateral when it's 16 to 3! Can't you count?

I always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public-policy issues; otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

I did not feel I could create a more beautiful or interesting Mars than Kim Stanley Robinson or Greg Bear had, so I turned my attention elsewhere.

But what is truth? 'Twas Pilate's question put To Truth itself, that deign'd him no reply.