Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.

If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown.

Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.

No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.

Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.

If you must doubt something, doubt your limits.

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

Excellence calls for character . . . integrity . . . fairness . . . honesty . . . a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board.

So let your deepest desires direct your aim. Set your sights far above the 'reasonable' target. The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire that stirs the heart.

We can't win the struggle for high standards if we just talk a good game . . . we've got to play a good game.

Trust is the glue that holds relationships together.

Getting a mentor is the shortcut to success.

I've stolen books. They're the only thing worth taking that don't belong to you.

I have fallen in love with the stories of our lives, our everyday mythologies. How will they unfold? What will become of us?

Man conquers the world by conquering himself.

distance is created by time is further than space

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire but my heart is all my own.

When you cast somebody, you write to their strengths.

A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big.

Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

Everyone who pays taxes has blood on their hands.