The secret to perseverance is a simple one: have a bigger commitment to getting the job done than to attempting to control your inner feelings and sensations.

It takes courage to be the author of your life.

Go for vitality, not comfort.

It takes committed, high energy, full-tilt boogie participation to have the kind of life you want.

Make your Vocation into Vacation and you will not have to work a single day.

Just because you have long legs doesn't mean you'll be happy as a Rockette.

The ability to feel fear and keep moving forward distinguishes the living from the merely breathing.

Steps are what you take when you think you have forever.

How can someone say they're successful if they're not happy doing their work?

Since you may never discover the truth, invent it.

The secret of creating anything new in your life consists of creating new commitments and then holding the tiller to your new course until it becomes established as a behavior.

You should welcome pain

We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.

You are your state of mind. Your state of mind creates your view, or your window, on life.

Education and the workforce: I think these two things go together in terms of human potential.

Everyone can access the parts of themselves that are great. I'm just a girl from New York City who decided to do this, after all. Rule the world! What's life worth living if you don't rule it?

The majority of my photos are taken while traveling, because everything feels new and exciting initially. Taking photos is like a way to make sense of the overwhelming.

The United States will remain the most powerful nation on Earth for the next 10, 15 years, but the context in which she holds her power has now radically altered.

We do not have to accept our current circumstances. We will change them. We are Americans. That's what we do.

We do not live by what is possessed but by what is promised.