No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.

If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown.

Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.

Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.

Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.

If you must doubt something, doubt your limits.

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

Excellence calls for character . . . integrity . . . fairness . . . honesty . . . a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board.

So let your deepest desires direct your aim. Set your sights far above the 'reasonable' target. The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire that stirs the heart.

We can't win the struggle for high standards if we just talk a good game . . . we've got to play a good game.

Trust is the glue that holds relationships together.

The greatest obstacles I ever had to overcome had been my own insecurities.

Saudi Arabia has also changed. People today are connecting with each other all across the world through small gadgets and television. It's a different society.

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For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.

Besides one should not believe that the people only want reading that is easy to absorb.

If you've got to get fired, it's really fabulous to get fired with a friend.

His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning.

I loved you!" he yelled. He jumped up out of his chair so quickly I never saw it coming. "I loved you, and you destroyed me. You took my heart and ripped it up.

There was a point in my 40s when I went into the bathroom with a bottle of wine, locked the door, and said, 'I'm not coming out until I can totally accept the way that I look right now.'