The cost of procrastination is generally far greater than the cost of making mistakes.

If you want to become good at something, do it as often as possible. If you want to become an expert at it, do it every day.

You can never be free until you develop the mental strength to stop fretting over things you cannot control.

Everything changes for the better when you take ownership of your own problems.

It’s not stress that kills people, but how they react to it.

Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success.

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

Reality isn't the way you wish things to be nor the way they appear to be but the way they actually are.

The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him.

The desire to impress others is one of the worst forms of mental imprisonment.

Can you buy friendship? You not only can, you must. It's the only way to obtain friends. Everything worthwhile has a price.

Nature is the guardian of Africa. While the sun lights the African sky in day time, the moon begs the world to help her lighting Africa in the night

Every traveler has their unique observation of the place they have been.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in.

Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.

The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult.

It still feels like Hip Hop is in the early '80s on Broadway.

I'm an actress, and I am Latina.

When people are like each other they tend to like each other.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.