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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?