What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?

I only wish I had more time for fund raising.

Change brings opportunity.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.

For the timid, change is frightening; for the comfortable, change is threatening; but for the confident, change is opportunity.

When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.

Your present circumstances dont determine where you can go they merely determine where you start.

Winners compare their achievements with their goals while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

Motivation without mobilization means only frustration

I did not think that a good movie was the equivalent of a good stage play, any more than I thought an automobile ride was as exhilarating as a drive behind a spirited horse, nor a trip by steam as soul-satisfying as a voyage by sail.

Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.

Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person.

There are no failures just experiences and your reactions to them.

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

Slander is a most serious evil; it implies two who do wrong, and one who is doubly wronged.

The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.

I've always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.

By rationing in-person meetings, their stature is elevated to that of a rare treat. They become something to be savored, something special.

No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.

My weight always fluctuates by 10 pounds.

We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain.

When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.

There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

I'm my most creative between 3 and 5 a.m. That's the way I've always been.

I always feel like a goofy little kid.

I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.

I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.

If you feel uncomfortable on stage, you can very easily descend into a sort of abyss, convinced you're the worst actor ever, that you're a disgrace to the profession, that you're a disgrace to yourself. It's an awful feeling.

I think there are some in the Democratic Party - not all - but I think there are some people in the Democratic Party that think that the immigration issue is more valuable to them unsolved. That it gives them something to talk about, that they can go back to Hispanic communities and make unrealistic promises every two years and win votes.

The first few weeks of joining Weight Watchers, you're just finding your feet.

I've never gotten money from most of those records. And I made those records: In the studio, they'd just give me a bunch of words, I'd make up a song! The rhythm and everything. 'Good Golly Miss Molly'! And I didn't get a dime for it.