Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become.

An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

Actions are right in proportion as they promote happiness, wrong as the produce the reverse.

Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

We don’t choose to be role models; we are chosen. Our only choice is whether to be a good role model or a bad one.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, buy you will never imprison my mind.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. . . If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.

Some of the worst things in my life never happened.

The world is a comedy to those that think, and a tragedy to those that feel.

Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.

Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.