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I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

Costume is a huge part of getting into character. Your body soaks in what you're wearing, and you turn into someone else.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

You'll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions.

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened.

When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.

Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.