Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.

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.

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

We divided ourselves among caste, creed, culture and countries but what is undivided remains most valuable: a mere smile and the love.

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year and that's better.

If something's working, you lean into it. You don't fight it.

You don't need to drink if you have emotional problems.

I knew I wanted to be an actress as soon as I popped out.

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.

These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity.

From nothing I have created another entirely new world.

Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery