A total commitment gives you the extra ounce of courage that it takes to win.

Remember, before you can be great, you've got to be good. Before you can be good, you've got to be bad. But before you can even be bad, you've got to try.

I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

Most people can stay excited for two or three months. A few people can stay excited for two or three years. But a winner will stay excited for twenty or thirty years...or as long as it takes to win.

Win with your heart, not your head - win on emotion, not in logic; have a passion about what you do; nobody wants a boss, everybody wants a coach.

Think of everybody you talk to as having a flashing sign on their chest saying: Make me feel special!

The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

All you can do is all you can do, but all you can do is enough.

A crusade is, simply put, something that's bigger than you are. It's a "cause" with an impact that reaches beyond your personal wants and needs.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

My dreams kept me trying when I could have quit.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

I'm a Red girl in a sea of Silvers and I can't afford to feel sorry for anyone, least of all the son of a snake.

I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.

I want to be a poet. I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.

It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.

No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.

In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.

The more you treat yourself positively, the less you'll want or need to be negative.

The most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man's land between the various established fields.

I'm a Bhakti, meaning I practice devotional yoga and the heart and love, so I say to people, start with your ego and go down to your heart.