Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

Without asking anybody’s advice I turned myself insane sitting under the same sun and the same clouds.

I will never abandon one opportunity and wait for another. We have not reached the goal we are striving for. What you see now is nothing compared to our vision…just tiny parts of what lies ahead.

When the symphony of life fills your heart, the chorus of contentment joins in.

There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes.

I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary.

I definitely have sympathy for people who are struggling. I've met with young Muslims who have told me about their struggles.

I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.

Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.

Most look at earnings and earnings potential, well I can't get into that game.