You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.

...men are much softer than women, more sentimental. They cry at the movies and pretend not to. The male of the species is weak. He doesn’t tolerate pain well.

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

A dream of life comes to me, like a catfish dancing on the end of the line.

Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works

Ignore the scale, and make the process your goal.

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.

The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light

Growing up in Jersey City was interesting. I got to learn a lot about different cultures: I had Hindu friends, Middle Eastern friends, black friends, Spanish friends.

The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.