The surest way of finding peace of mind is that which helps the greatest number of others to find it

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

I told her about school and how I sat on a wall there and felt stories and words move through me ...

Says Momma: “I got handed lemons, too, y’know but I learned how to make lemonade with them… No one ever told me I had to add sugar but that’s life for you. It ain’t sweet.

You walk like others? You talk like others? You think like others? Then the world doesn’t need you because others are already abundant in the world! Be original!

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

I want to make photographs of very elegant women taking the lipstick off their teeth.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a childminder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

You do not have to protect people's pocket books. They'll do a better job of that than you will.

I didn’t want to kill girls… even vampire girls. Though I might make an exception for that blonde.

Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together.