A healthy strong ego, with plenty of self-esteem, does not feel itself threatened by every innocent remark.

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.

True freedom is in not having a master, but in making the master your slave

A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.

For the most part, when you're on set, you know everything's fake. You're very aware of the fact that you're shooting a television show.

...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

I'm still one of the guys and I always will be.

Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.

I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.

I think everything I do has Howard Roark [hero of The Fountainhead] in it, you know, as much as anything. The person I write for is Howard Roark.

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.

I'm not to the point where I need to shut myself off from people, unless I feel like I need to, but I don't force myself to deal with people.