When we carve out a niche for ourselves in our imagined future, and decide that we won't be happy until we achieve it, we can only feel threatened and anxious over anything that stands in our way.

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

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Many women arrange their lives around the people they love. Unfortunately, that arrangement takes up most of our days.

When the power of love overtakes all other power then we will find the true peace on earth.

She was not stunned, the way I was. In some strange way she was gleeful, as if this was what she had been expecting for some time and now she'd been proven right.

When a man is gloomy everything seems to go wrong when he is cheerful everything seems right!

The moment you try to institutionalize art, it ceases to be art.

The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.

Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.

It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.