Mother Teresa was brilliant. She said, “I will never attend an anti-war rally. If you have a peace rally, invite me.” She knew. She understood the secret. Look what she manifested in the world.

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.

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. A life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Successful ecologists are successful in part because they have prepared their minds to attack scientific problems using a variety of intellectual tools.

All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help

A new state, if it wants to join the European Union, has to apply to become a member of the European Union like any state.

I don't like to analyze my music too much. It just comes welling up out of the depths of my soul.

Remember, only what you give can God multiply back. If you give nothing, and even if God were to multiply it, it would still be nothing!

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Feminism is a theory, lesbianism is a practice.