You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this nothing works unless you do.

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.

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

For many people, change is more threatening than challenging. They see it as the destroyer of what is familiar and comfortable rather than the creator of what is new and exciting.

Momentum builds success.

I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.

It's still a lean back, enjoy or a lean forward, be involved, enjoy medium. It's real engagement, real emotion.

How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

The actors I admire, like Ben Kingsley or Daniel Day-Lewis, they totally reinvent themselves in every part. I hope I get a chance to do that.

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Bearing sham and scoffing rude, in my place condemned He stood - Sealed my pardon with His blood: Hallelujah, what a Savior!

Think as I think," said a man, "or you are abominably wicked; you are a toad." And after I thought of it, I said, "I will, then, be a toad.

If you’re alive, you can’t be bored in San Francisco. If you’re not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life.