When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.

People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.

People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it.

To know yourself is the first and most important step in pursuing your dreams and goals.

All your life you compare and contrast, explore and search. But knowing yourself well is, well, elusive.

And whenever you encounter a problem, no matter how insurmountable it might seem, there is one simple response that should be ingrained in your behavior: Never give up.

If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.

When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind.

The idea of being able to serve as an example, based upon how to process, how to think, how to realize our own dreams, we can pass that down to our children.

Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears.

We make the best choices when we have invested all of our energies, our hearts, and our souls into a course of action that leads to the accomplishment of goals we are passionate about.

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

Beauty crowds me till I die. Beauty, mercy have on me! Yet if I expire to-day Let it be in sight of thee!

I dont think theres a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter.

There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.

What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath? Yes; but not this alone.

I've been fortunate to live a very full professional life. Most of it has happened through God's graciousness and not from something I've imagined.

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

I think it's increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way.

A rusted nail, placed near the faithful compass, Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.