When we feed ourselves full of possibilities, we gain courage.

Fire is harmful unless it’s controlled. Then it provides warmth, enables us to cook, and sets a romantic tone when contained in a fireplace.

Your response to rejection is the same way. When your response is unbridled, it can devastate. When your response is controlled, it can be used to motivate you, stir you into action, and bring you closer to your goals.

Be careful not to compare how insecure you feel about yourself on the inside with how polished others may look on the outside.

The more perfect another person appears to be, the more likely they feel inadequate.

It ought to be with a sense of relief, not a sense of compromise and reluctance, that we come to the conclusion that we are not and never will be perfect.

Your own life is your competition.

Rejection causes pain but like physical pain, it goes away.

By understanding that all rejection is beneficial, you’ll be able to open-mindedly examine each rejection rather than allowing negativity to creep in and take over.

Positive thinking people use rejection to motivate them.

Where there is no vision, the people perish. Hang on to your vision.

We conquer by continuing.

Be like a postage stamp - stick to one thing until you get there.

Submitting to fear and avoiding rejection takes away our freedom to dream.

When you continue exploring your possibilities, great ideas emerge that can benefit you and others in a big way.

Every lasting success involves overcoming rejection.

You can do amazing things if you have strong faith, deep desire, and just hang in there.

You can’t make the decision for someone else to reject you. Take the risk!

Their pride often got the best of them. Rather than face the fear of embarrassment, they would simply reject the idea.

It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies of Kim Jong Il.

I've never been a heavy practitioner of the method or, at least, with any specific intent; I'm kind of an impulse-based person. Like, I'm sort of waiting for something to happen that I'm not expecting, and I kind of want to jump on that train of emotion, whatever it is, both from myself or from the other actor.

My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.

The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.

If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.

I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.

I want to raise up the next generation of young people who are going to run this community. I need for them to understand government and how it works.

It's funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts.

Facebook allows outsiders to add functionality to the site but reserves the right to change that policy at any time, to charge a fee for applications, or to de-emphasize or eliminate apps that court controversy or that they simply don't like.

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.

I took a Groundlings class in my 20s, and I was terrible. They didn't even pass me to the next level.

I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.

You need not to find somebody with matching wavelengths, the Universe is there to conspire that to happen.

The Buddha is in me, the Buddha is in you. Live up to it.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for everyone - and that's the hard part - but by improving our own. And that happens to be quite easy. Less meat, less junk, more plants.

Success happens over nights.

The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.

Having an aim is the key to achieving your best.

I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

The financial and economic crash of 2008, the worst in over 75 years, is a major geopolitical setback for the United States and Europe.