I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually. Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come.
Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.
To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.
God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest.
Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you.