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I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
If we learned all we needed to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.
I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope.
The success of the young entrepreneur will be the key to India's transformation in the new millennium.
Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit.
There will be no more 'them and us', only us, sharing struggles and challenges as part of being human.
The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
My worthiness is all my doubt His Merit- all my fear- Contrasting which my quality Does however appear
Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.
Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.
The Savior empowers us with His grace, not because we've earned it, but because He loves us perfectly.
Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company.
The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.
Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
You are at a choice-point in every moment of each circumstance, each activity, spoken word and thought.
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time.
The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.
My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home.
Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.
By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.
If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
I feel this pang of regret whenever I watch sport; this sense that I will never play a big match again.
Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.
Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.
Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find someone's hand and squeeze it, while there's still time.
We have a heard of gold, and that's what this medal is right here. It's a team that will never give up.
Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.
Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we did it before, Each time is a new journey with no maps.
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.