The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.

When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like shadows

Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.

If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.

The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

... The continuation of her life was more than another day of breathing, but was the gift of another day of engagement with her beloved across the spectrum of all things.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.

I still have an insane drive to create and express myself, and it'll never stop because I don't know how to stop it.

Beauty is not defined by the clothes you wear or the makeup on your face BUT by the way you carry your struggles with smiles, hard work & love

My mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.

To commune daily with God in deep meditation, and to carry His love and guidance with you into all your dutiful activities, is the way that leads to permanent peace and happiness.

Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.

I didn't want to find out the reality that if I wanted my dream, I had to lose weight. That's a crushing dream for anybody . . . to change yourself to get your dream. Nobody should have to do that.

It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank.