Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them.

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.

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

Stop seeking advice from bitter people, because they would for the most part contribute to making your situation worse.

Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.

I love the saliheen (pious people) even though I’m not one of them, and I hate the taliheen (evil people) even though I (may be) worse than them.

The only reason I send a single young man or woman in uniform anywhere in the world is because I think it's necessary to keep us safe.

The older I become the more I realize of that I have to work very hard to reproduce what I search: the instantaneous. The influence of the atmosphere on the things and the light scattered throughout.

Your curiosity is your growth point. Always.

I don't want to hide. If I get arrested, I get arrested.

On GOP Tax Cuts: They'll take food out of the mouths of children to give tax cuts to the wealthiest.

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.