To achieve your dreams, work is required. Suffering is optional.

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.

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

Most of what's tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience's expectation.

Learn to deal with the valleys and the hills will take care of themselves.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.

Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.

No one has success, until he has the abounding life. This is made up of the many-fold qualities of energy, enthusiasm, and gladness.

Leadership is not about being nice. it's about being right and being strong

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.

A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.