So if you see no one like you, no one who agrees, don't worry. There are actually hundreds of people like you, and they're waiting for a leader. That person is you.

Success works as a cycle - growth and contraction, balancing and unbalancing - all while you're encountering hurdles that get higher and higher over time.

You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.

The truth is that judgment and fear will never stop, but they don't actually do anything.

You can change the world again, instead of protecting yourself from it.

Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn't what's important - facing it is.

What you're missing is that the path itself changes you.

The ability to withstand the flinch comes with the knowledge that the future will be better than the past.

You can't make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence.

No one has a problem with the first mile of a journey. Even an infant could do fine for a while. But it isn't the start that matters. It's the finish line.

Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

Make space in your life for the inevitable arrival of what you want.

I like solving problems, and science provides a logical way of solving real-life problems.

At the door to the helicopter, Gansey looked bad over his shoulder at them, his smile complicated when he saw them holding hands.

I'm an actress, primarily. I love to write poetry. I've been writing poetry since I was 12 years old.

I don't think readers of Mann have overlooked the fact that he was a great ironist, but they have tended to see the irony in particular parts of the novella, and to miss it in others.

Yes, I'm a homosexual and I like to shock people with glamour.

Truth is, it's a relief to finally put my life in the hands of someone I trust.

This is the single most powerful investment we can ever make in life—investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and to contribute.

I definitely have favorite books by favorite poets, but poets' books also vary. I could like some books, but not like another book.