The great value of lofty goals is the bigness they instill in you as you step-up to achieve them.

Those who win are those who think they can.

Iterate. Iterate Iterate.

You can't avoid success if you disown your fear.

Failure is inevitable, success is optional.

The uber successful are those who breed success in others.

Obstacles are a measure of the intensity of your passion.

Excellence never seeks excuses.

If they aren't laughing at your goals, you are not dreaming big enough.

The idea you implement is more important than the ideas you collect.

If you can't stop thinking about it, don't stop working for it.

So many of the world's problems, he mused, were solved by sheer human decency.

Garnish your food with romance.

History tells us what people do

In some situations lying can also be considered as a good thing, at least for you anyway.

I don't drink or do any drugs. I never have and I never will. I don't need them. I'm a black woman from the land of the free, home of the brave, and I figure I don't need another illusion.

Reality isn't a vast, fixed scheme trapping you without choice. At any moment you have the choice to break out of what is really trapping you-your automatic reactions dredged up from the past.

How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?

I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.

Uh-uh. We've played this game before. I hide. You never seek. I'm a bit slow on the uptake, but I'm beginning to sense a pattern.

Win the game in your mind, before the starting whistle.