You don't have the potential to create, you are always creating.

For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

Make a conscious effort to surround yourself with positive, nourishing, and uplifting people -- people who believe in you, encourage you to go after your dreams, and applaud your victories.

Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.

Decide what it is you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.

You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

Each of us is born with a life purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take.

When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.

I told him I had once lost everything I had, too, and that I think that can be God’s way of building walls around us to force us to look up at Him.

Kas was right: a woman could destroy a man. This one could do so, simply by knowing his name. She could do so, simply with her eyes.

Putting a piece of you in your protagonist adds depth and merges the worlds of fiction and reality.

Treat your friends as you do your picture and place them in their best light.

You can easily tell if a person is lying and cheating on you if they say, I love you. I would never lie to you or cheat on you.

I'm definitely the person for most of my friends that everyone calls, goes to and wants advice from.

You think you are somebody and that is where the problem begins. You're really not somebody, you're everybody. You objectify yourself into thinking that you are a particular state of being.

Keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate... not following the thought stream.

We are not always totally happy about how we are portrayed.

If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.