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

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.

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.

If misery loves company misery has company enough.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.

I am not here to accuse the media of anything.

Do not be afraid our fate Cannot be taken from us it is a gift.

It is not only by dint of lying to others but also of lying to ourselves that we cease to notice that we are lying.

I love to cook. My mom taught me to cook at a very, very young age.

Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit.

As football players, our bodies know exactly what time of year it is and what we need to be doing.

I am in control of every aspect of my life.

I am not a philosopher.

If you're stumbling out of a bar, and people tweet about it, well, don't be dumb. If you're going to get falling-down drunk, stay at home - which I did a lot of.

The nature of my work is my subjectivity meshed with other people's subjectivity. So there's a correspondence with that... Even if you write about me, it will reflect on you; everything is a kind of weird collaboration.

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

I had no idea of the size of my bank account as a teen, and I didn't care to know. That was my mom's job, I figured that I would just find out when I turned 18. If you can't trust your mom, then who can you trust?

I love 'Sex and the City;' I think I've seen every episode.

When you love people, you give them a priority. You have a sense of urgency about their pain.

We cannot continue to sweep the problems of segregation and discrimination under the rug.

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

Once you get over the culture shock, Filey is a pleasant spot, particularly at the beginning or end of the summer, when the hotels are half full. The brave go in winter, when the wind can be bitter and biting and Filey resumes its real life as a tiny, introverted fishing community.

It's nice when you work with someone who has an eye for clothes and will show what you've given them.

I grew up in Colombo but was lucky enough to spend a lot of time in the countryside as well. Although there was considerable turbulence, even in the 1950s, it did not throw a shadow on my consciousness.

No body is a looser either he is a Winner or a Learner.