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 we feed ourselves full of possibilities, we gain courage.

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.

The best way to be appreciative for your life is to live it; don't die for any other reason but love. Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.

Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.

Sometimes I just cry at random stuff!

It's a very distinct difference between Romney and Obama and myself.

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

My time in the World Rally Championship has been a useful stage in my career, but I can't deny the fact that my hunger for F1 has recently become overwhelming.

I don't say anything unintentionally.

As for the zone, I always find the zone immediately after I am sure I will never ever find the zone again because it has left me for some other, better writer.

Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

I have this problem with violence. I've only done one movie in almost 20 years where I killed people. It's called Perdita Durango. It's a Spanish movie. I'm very proud of the movie, but I felt weird doing that.

You must recognize, embrace, and be honest about what is real for you today and allow that understanding to inform the choices you make. Only then will you be able to build the future of your dreams.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.

When we are out there selling a new picture, when did it become part of the deal that you have to sell the family? To use the juicy part of your life to get attention? I'm not blaming the reporters. It's the system.

The true credit for our safety and security goes to our men and women who are serving in places like Iraq and Afghanistan in the global war on terrorism.

Equipment sellers can pocket more than $2,500 every time they send a powered wheelchair to a patient and bill Medicare.

The welfare state creates its own victim/client constituency. By making individuals free and independent, we reduce the need for 'charity' to those truly needy citizens what we can certainly afford to help through real charity.

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

What comes next? Super Mario 128? Actually, that's what I want to do.

I say that a myth is a story which has particular energy, mythic resonance. I always say that a myth is a tear in the fabric of reality through which all of this spiritual energy pours.

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.