The greatest miracle you can hope for is self-acceptance.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible.

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.

We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something.

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.

The biggest secret of self-esteem is this: Begin to appreciate other people more; show respect for any human being merely because he is a child of God and therefore a thing of value.

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

When a man begins to reason he ceases to feel.

Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.

Sadly, in the highest levels of economic thought in government, questions are not tolerated. It is as if we're dealing with the binary thinking of a fundamentalist religion.

Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.

The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody.

Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.

I'm a role model. I have overcome the negativity, and I'm playing.

Know this. I think you could be special if you only thought there was anything special about yourself.

I think that having the years in college to really focus on your training is incredibly valuable. College shapes the kind of person/actor that one becomes.