You are who you decide to be.

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

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

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will sink out of sight.

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.

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Before a man can accomplish anything of an enduring nature in the world, he must first of all acquire some measure of success in the management of his own mind.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.