Your level of performance matches your dominant self image.

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.

We will drink what we thirst for and eat what we hunger for if we allow ourselves to be used for what we were created for!

Ive learned never to try and force words to come.

I always tell people, I'm a better swimmer because I'm a mom and a better mom because I'm swimmer.

We all think we have our personal favorites. But when I say, "People shouldn't steal - is it true?" Everyone in a room of, let's say, a thousand people all raise their hands and say, "That's true."

There are no golden geese. There are only fat geese eating the food that could nourish more athletic opportunities for women.

Marriage? I ain't got time for a husband or child. All my life I've looked after myself as if I was my own child.

This is one of those big, fat paperbacks, intended to while away a monsoon or two, which, if thrown with a good overarm action, will bring a water buffalo to its knees.

Love's scary, and sometimes it's transient. But it's worth the risks and the nerves. It's even worth the pain.

Tagore once said - art has to be beautiful, but, before that, it has to be truthful.

From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud pied April, dressed in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing.