This is where you will win the battle - in the playhouse of your mind.

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.

In poetry we pare down our thoughts into their most graceful shapes, like minimalist sculptures.

If I loved someone, I could never let him go away from me. I would be too miserable and lonely.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

I had to give up martinis - I enjoyed them too much.

I can sit underneath the shed with all my family, my cousins, and everything, and just be like, "Yeah, this is what it's about - just sitting with people you love and hanging out."

Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important. And wishing never works.

I'm a perimeter player. I'm more like a Ray Allen.

The cross is where God forgave his children without lowering his standards.

Unless you are an enormous name, you never stop auditioning.

I don't like bare floors.