Your current conditions do not reflect your ultimate potential, but rather the size and quality of goals upon which you currently are focusing.

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can't have it.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

It's pretty simple - The Action you take will determine the results you Achieve.

Nothing can drag you down if you're not holding on to it.

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

Its not about the goal. Its about growing to become the person that can accomplish that goal.

I've been depressed all day. I feel like such a fraud. People say how special and wonderful I am. I think, "Can't they tell? "—Nita, September 18, 1984

Afflictions are but the shadow of His wings.

You can’t help who you fall in love with.

Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world.

I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.

You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you're singing it from someone else's angle. But it's always from me. It's just a new way of framing it.

An I must drink sour ale, I must, but never have I yielded me to man before, and that without wound or mark upon my body. Nor, when I bethink me, will I yield now.

Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.

A Jap's a Jap. There is no way to determine their loyalty... This coast is too vulnerable. No Jap should come back to this coast except on a permit from my office.

I'm intrigued by the classic Greek tragedies, as well as by the idea of the Greek chorus.