“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your’re the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

You become what you think about all day long.

Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Confidence, the sexiest thing I put on in the morning.

When your business can earn a good income, you become confident & powerful.

What counts the most for women is having the confidence to make your own money.

If I changed, it was for the better.

Confidence is the best thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.

The ability to say no is closely linked to self-confidence.

My will is mine, I shall not make it soft for you.

Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.