The problem is that most people focus on their failures rather than their successes. But the truth is that most people have many more successes than failures.

For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

Make a conscious effort to surround yourself with positive, nourishing, and uplifting people -- people who believe in you, encourage you to go after your dreams, and applaud your victories.

Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.

Decide what it is you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.

You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

Each of us is born with a life purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take.

When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.

For the sense of smell almost more than any other has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that we use it so little.

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.

The dividing line between wish and need was never clear.

I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It's just very public when they fail.

Everyone has a bad hair day; the trick is not to have one on picture day.

The peace sign is with two fingers not one.

Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive, Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.

I knew I couldn't believe in God, because I was fundamentally Hellenic in my outlook.