True independence means being free from the domination of your own internal automatic behaviors, not doing what you feel like when the urge strikes.

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 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.

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.

I look at her face, so content, so happy. Even more beautiful all flushed with passion and think of how lucky a man I really am.

We loved—and were fated to sorrow. But from our striving and from our sorrow we fashioned The Oldest Story in the World.

Life delights in life.

Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.

The doctors and nurses at the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital are saving lives every day and helping improve health care in the DRC which has been ravaged by more than a decade of war and disease.

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.

Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.

Mathematicians do not study objects, but the relations between objects.

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

The main target for the next years should be growth and job creation.