Most people fail to be congruent because they don't want to show weakness. But typically best friends know your worst and most unattractive moments.

If you radiate a genuine confidence in your actions, others tend to believe in your goals as well. If you don't believe in your desired outcome, why should the rest of the world ?

If you focus on the reason why you should reach your goal you will put yourself in a more confident mindset.

A good way to empower yourself before a big moment is to write down 10 reasons why a person would want to say yes to your suggestion or ideas.

Meditation lowers the stress level and also strengthens your mental strength and focus, creativity and memory, qualities which are crucial to good conversations and building relationships.

If your thoughts, words and actions are congruent you come off to others as authentic and self-assured. Others will respond to you as you truly are.

If you do what you are really passionate about you will be attractive to others.

Stop looking for validation from others. If you do things because you genuinely want them you free yourself up to pursue interests and hobbies that you may never have considered before.

Take back control of your self-image by worrying less about what others think of you and more about who you really are and how much you are enjoying life.

Everyone loves to talk - but few have perfected the art of listening.

Most people are eager to make a connection and talk too much, however it's in listening that you come to truly understand a person and what makes them tick.

Listening opens your mind, strengthens your sense of empathy and develops your ability to connect.

Your most important and long-lasting relationship is the one that you have with yourself.

To accept the fact that not everyone will like you can be tremendously freeing. Rejection is rarely about your defects more often two persons simply don't mesh well. Then it's better to put time and energy into other relationships.

It makes her instantly feel something It’s easy to respond to It’s creative and/or humorous

Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my house neglected and to hear the radio concert for an hour.

His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.

Growing richer every day, for as rich and poor are relative terms, when the rich are growing poor, it is pretty much the same as if the poor were growing rich. Nobody is poor when the distinction between rich and poor is destroyed.

I love online gambling.

When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much.

You are happiest when you are most humble. You are most miserable when you are egotistical.

I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.

Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.

My mother's proud of where she's from, and her history, and her past, and same with my dad. I have roots in Africa. Like, I am from Africa as well as from Germany, and I am very proud of that.

I remember when I saw 'The Matrix' when I was 13, I saw it in the theaters, and I was so blown away by it. It was one of the most memorable experiences I definitely ever had in the theater.

Everything that has happened in my life is because of good government and because the United States of America was the greatest nation on the face of the earth.

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.

Introverts often assume what's inside is visible on the outside. We don't have to invent or fake the emotion; we just need to allow it to be seen!

Fundamental research is needed to make progress, which you cannot do solely by copying others. If you only do applied research, you quickly lose creativity.

Get to know the real you, rather than try to look like or dress like those around you.

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children.

I'm really good at pretending.

I have a very pessimistic view that every win takes you closer to a loss because no-one in the world can keep on winning forever.

You have to learn how to listen to your emotions, letting your internal compass guide you. Your emotions let you know when you are on and off track.

I never thought a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland or anywhere else was a good idea.

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.

The plane approaches Cape Town and, as always, I am astonished by the view of Table Mountain and the surrounding sea. It is so overwhelmingly beautiful that I feel the urge to belong - not necessarily to the people, but to the landscape.