Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.

For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

Make a conscious effort to surround yourself with positive, nourishing, and uplifting people -- people who believe in you, encourage you to go after your dreams, and applaud your victories.

Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.

Decide what it is you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.

You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

Each of us is born with a life purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take.

When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

This moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don't let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay in the moment, and dare to consider that you can be free now.

Cormac interrupted. 'Maybe I oughta shoot you both, put you both out of your misery.

Let us live not only to serve God ourselves; let us live to help our children and their children live for God.

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.

Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.

. . . escape is easier than change.

I take a much more pragmatic view than many people on the Left about working with Neil Kinnock. Kinnock represents the best vehicle possible for achieving socialism now.

I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in the very marrow of my bones.