Most of us choose avoidance instead. As a result, we don’t live up to our potential, never becoming fully ourselves.

Higher forces must be experienced directly, and that takes effort. That means you'll face the same stark choice I did: demand proof that you'll never receive, or use the tools in the face of your doubts. When I stopped thinking and focused on the tools, my reward was life changing faith.

It’s a paradox; only when you desire fear, will you be able to take action in its presence—which is what courage consists of.

Fear is almost always linked to an image you have of something terrible happening in the future. To develop courage, you have to give up this illusion of future certainty.

There’s a hidden, inner strength that you cannot find unless you push yourself through adversity.

“The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too … raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.”

The Comfort Zone is supposed to keep your life safe, but what it really does is keep your life small.

A few rare individuals refuse to live limited lives. They drive through tremendous amounts of pain—from rejections and failures to shorter moments of embarrassment and anxiety. They also handle the small, tedious pain required for personal discipline, forcing themselves to do things we all know we should do.

The more intense the pain—and the more aggressively you move into it—the more energy you’ll create.

There are three kinds of people: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who ask, What happened

Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.

You have to search for the best writer - I'm not saying I'm the one, but it's a bad idea to just find the person who is a copycat of Stieg Larsson.

Tenacious people don't rely on luck, fate, or destiny for their success. And when conditions become difficult, they keep working.

The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill.

I think the people who really know who Luis is are the people who are by my side, who have always been by my side.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it's the real test of your character and of your faith to say, 'Things are not going our way, but I'm still being good to people; I'm still attending church; I still have a good attitude.'

We need to flatten entire neighborhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didn't stop with Hiroshima - the Japanese weren't surrendering fast enough, so they hit Nagasaki, too. There should be no electricity in Gaza, no gasoline or moving vehicles, nothing.

When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.

O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship.

From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition.

I hope my work contributes to understanding long-term patterns of human behavior and how we survive, thrive, or fail during times of environmental, social, and economic crisis.

I was a huge Bowie fan since I was 12 years old. That was the first 'punk' rock I got into in the Seventies. I didn't find out about a lot of the other stuff that was going on, like New York Dolls and Roxy Music, until a lot later.

I did have a very restricted, regimented life. There was a kind of happiness there, a contentment, but it was a small happiness within very clear and delineated borders.

Positive thinking must be followed by positive doing.

I invite people to read the hundreds of positive articles instead of getting affected by the occasional outburst from a troll.

Judge me if you want, but at the end of my life I choose to have memories not regrets.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

A true friend is someone who is always there during the ups and downs, I actually have a song called 'True Friend'.

Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.