The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognise your own worth.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible.

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.

We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something.

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.

The biggest secret of self-esteem is this: Begin to appreciate other people more; show respect for any human being merely because he is a child of God and therefore a thing of value.

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

No matter how safe and beautiful it is, a cage is still a cage.

To deal with reality you must first recognize it as such.

For me, writing is just as much a choice as breathing. I can quit anytime I want, but not starting again would prove fatal.

Misery and poverty of a nation does not depend on how fertile their land is but the fertility of their thoughts.

While I like people, I do also like being alone in a room and seeing what you can do with a particular theme or subject.

Kenneth Hari is a true artist and in my opinion a psychic. When he is painting you, he feels your heart and soul.

I'm satisfied. It's straight,...but it's just so hot, and I'm just so fraustrated.

Some roles are easier to choose, some roles are more difficult because they are more daring. Sometimes you have to dare.

Ensuring the access of all citizens to government information and to essential information for human development is a must for every democratic society.

None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.