The power to affect your future lies within your own hands.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision

Success doesn't come to you; you must go to it. The trail is well traveled. If you want to walk it, you can.

You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this nothing works unless you do.

If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.

The process of growing and learning always involves risk.

Hatred is the most destructive force on earth. It does the most damage to those who harbor it.

Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft

Life is a collection of experiences. Stockpile those wrought with love like the treasures they are.

In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving

I’m no dynamic career woman. I don’t network or do lunch – I work because I have to. My job does not define me, but I try to do it well.

Maturity means being able to tolerate, on all sorts of planes, uncertainty and not knowing.

People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case; our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

I have to say as an actor I have been inspired by so many British actors throughout the years.

I could not blot out hope, for hope belongs to the future.

I play the unsinkable Molly Brown, which is where she got her name from, because she survived.

ahhh the beauty of annihilation. There's nothing like it.