Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they're moving toward getting it.

Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you're gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love.

Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone's gift - yours and mine.

Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.

You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

Isolation is a dream killer.

We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or dimension of existence.

Diet and supplements and exercise programs aren't what is achieving longevity. Having a faith-based community can add four to 14 years.

And I loved this moment for all it's pain...We seemed for a moment like two parts of the same thing.

Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

Compassionate conservatism [is] most importantly, making sure that government is not the answer to people's problems.

You always have to prepare for the obstacles that are going to come. Consequently, when they do come, it doesn't affect you mentally near as much as when you're unprepared for them.

There are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls.

Im a soulless lawyer. Give me any opinion and I can argue it.

Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!"

The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.