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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.
I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.
Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.
I don't think I'm really in a situation to complain, because I consider myself to be privileged to be doing what I do.
Sometimes, what is right for you at the beginning of your life is not the right thing for you at the end of your life.
I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
"It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever" he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?"
You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
I knew, regardless of anything else, singing in front of an orchestra was going to be inspirational. It would feed me.
Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.
If I was 14 and knew some gay people, I wouldn't nearly have had the struggle I had. Our world is definitely changing.
The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.
Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.
Stand fully in the now moment with gratitude, enthusiasm, openness, and readiness to respond to Life as it greets you.
One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them.
A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.
It's easy to carry the past as a burden instead of a school. It's easy to let it overwhelm you instead of educate you.
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.
Your words should be so strong that they affect every your intuition so that you can recognize what is real and heart.
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Do what you say you are going to do, when you say you are going to do it, in the way you said you were going to do it.
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
In Africa, we were around thousands of people who have seen a lot of poverty, but they were fun at the end of the day.
You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.
Laughing, how can you fall asleep? It brings a state of no-mind and no-thought, and does not allow you to fall asleep.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.
To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
We must always base our commitment in the center of our own being, or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic.
The successful businessman must be able to foresee possibilities, to estimate with sagacity the outcome in the future.
There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.
Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives... So train the whole person, not just the dancer.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.
Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, how to love basketball.
If a vacuum cleaner salesman rings your front door, he will be selling HIMSELF first. The vacuum cleaner is secondary.
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
I do not love "good" more than I love "bad." Hitler went to heaven. When you understand this, you will understand God.
Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.