“You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or position in life.”

One person’s ceiling is another person’s floor.

The greatest achievements are those that benefit others.

The greatest limitations you will ever face will be those you place on yourself.

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

When you kill time, you kill your opportunities for success.

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people.

Close your eyes and visualize the person you really want to be, who fits your own concepts of self-respect. If you can see the person clearly in the mirror of you mind, you surely will become that person.

The world is a mirror and reflects back your expectations. What you get is what you see.

Your best friend should bring out the best in you.

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

The world needs role models, instead of critics.

Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others.

Your habits will determine your quality of life.

When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.

Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.

Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.

But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child — a true self who is waiting.

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn’t want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.