People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it.

People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.

When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.

To know yourself is the first and most important step in pursuing your dreams and goals.

All your life you compare and contrast, explore and search. But knowing yourself well is, well, elusive.

And whenever you encounter a problem, no matter how insurmountable it might seem, there is one simple response that should be ingrained in your behavior: Never give up.

If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.

When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind.

The idea of being able to serve as an example, based upon how to process, how to think, how to realize our own dreams, we can pass that down to our children.

Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears.

We make the best choices when we have invested all of our energies, our hearts, and our souls into a course of action that leads to the accomplishment of goals we are passionate about.

You can’t confuse childlike faith with childish thinking.

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

Captain Bradbury's right eyebrow had now become so closely entangled with his left that there seemed no hope of ever extricating it without the aid of powerful machinery.

I have olive skin, so if I'm in the sun for even 15 minutes, I turn brown.

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.

Let's make America great again.

Sometimes I think that people's characters get forged, at least in part, from their names.

I like to have a good time. I'm playing a great game, so why should I stop smiling when I get on the field?

Memory is not frozen, it's very much alive, it moves, it changes.

I see myself being 5 times hotter than I am now every year. I just focus on being hotter than the year before.