Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.

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.

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.

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.

Do not wait until the near end of your life to realize that you have not fully lived to love.

A Depressive?' 'Smiles in ballrooms, weeps in bedrooms. Ill in her head.' Olive tapped her temple. 'And here.' She touched her heart.

The possessions themselves were not the problem, it was my relationship with possessing.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.

If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed.

Don't follow a trend. Follow your heart.

I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.

Yes, [I am accusing the CIA of] misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am.

All these rappers on stage and Martha Stewart has done the most jail time.