I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

We are free up to the point of choice, then the choice controls the chooser.

It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not to waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

A winner never taught me how to quit.

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.

The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

Are you one of the flock that follows, or Are you one that shall lead the way?

I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.

You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease to exist at death.

Life is short. Time is fast. No replay, no rewind. Enjoy every moment as it comes.

Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm!

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the small man seeks is in others.

To establish true self-esteem, we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.

The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.

It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.