Persistence is stubbornness with a purpose.

One of the most powerful forces in the world is the will of men and women who believe in themselves, who dare to hope and aim high, who go confidently after the things they want from life.

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.

The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

I have seen countless people make a choice to be confident. If you don't naturally feel bold and confident, you can choose an attitude of confidence.

This is an exciting world. It is cram packed with opportunity. Great moments await around every corner.

Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

Great moments await around every corner.

You make up your mind before you start that sacrifice is part of the package.

Exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It is cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner.

If faith makes people buy an entire package of myths and values without asking too many questions, scientists are only slightly better.

Steven Gerrard would be the captain of my World XI dream team.

I had a mother who was very developed psychically and spiritually. She was, in a way, an opposite of my father, a complete liberal, interested in woman's liberation before it was the fashion.

The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.

Everything, every part that you approach has to be somehow rooted in yourself. You have to somehow root everything so that it's not just words coming out of you.

Our losses have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses.

Land is an emotional subject with a farmer in India because it is his only means of income.

Everything disturbs an absent lover.

I'm just stayin' humble, and true. It's good right now baby - staying' true baby.

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.