You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

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.

Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.

Climate deniers are less immoral than Holocaust deniers, although they are undoubtedly more dangerous.

Humans eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Suddenly, they start cutting reality up into bits and pieces, which is what the thinking mind does.

The most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen

Pain is not a conduit to art or joy

How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?

The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life changes.

If I don't like someone, I'll let that person know. I'm not very diplomatic. I understand that.