Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.

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.

They got the absolute freedom to choose what we want them to.

[Like they say, ] small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.

Democracy is not something we have. It's something we do.

No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders.

The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people.

When I can't immediately define the character, and there's an element of mystery to it and still a lot to be explored, that's when I say yes.

The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.

My ideal office wouldn't have a chair. You would do two things there: stand up or lie down. These are the body's most natural positions.

You can either be a con or a man—you can’t be both.

[Senators John Kerry & John Edwards] have risen high in Democratic polls with a brand of class resentment and soak-the-rich rhetoric rooted in the old-fashioned liberalism of Ted Kennedy.