Make a strong and permanent commitment to invest your talents only in pursuits that deserve your best efforts.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision

Success doesn't come to you; you must go to it. The trail is well traveled. If you want to walk it, you can.

You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this nothing works unless you do.

If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.

The process of growing and learning always involves risk.

Hatred is the most destructive force on earth. It does the most damage to those who harbor it.

Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft

People are not good at expressing their frustration. The best way to listen to the customer is through metrics.

To me there can be no liberation without socialism. And conversely, there can be no socialism without liberation for everybody.

Don't be afraid to speak up for yourself. Keep fighting for your dreams!

I'm confident in my art.

I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three.

I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.

We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves

If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.

My family tree consists of drug dealers, thugs, and killers.

Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.