“If you are going to be successful, you need to give up the phrase, I can’t & all of its cousins, such as I wish I were able to.”

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

Success consists of going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

A dog is one of the few remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.

The dynamics that are required to make any relationship work: Just keep putting your love out there.

Do you want to speak to the man in charge—or the nurse who knows what’s going on?

There is no right reaction. There is only your reaction.

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

If you love your work, if you enjoy it, you’re already a success.

And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain and raise me to me feet once again – so that I can start a new path, my own path, the one that will make me whole again.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Carry your most important goal in your wallet.

Expect the unexpected. Focus on what you can control and acknowledge what’s out of your control.

If someone is hostile in the delivery of their feedback, remember that it is an expression of their level of fear, not your level of incompetence or unlovability.

When you think you can’t, revisit a previous triumph.

Don’t let anyone steal your dreams. Follow your heart, no matter what.

If you give your mind a $10,000 problem, it will come up with a $10,000 solution. If you give your mind a $1 million problem, it will come up with a $1 million solution.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Everyone deserves to believe they are beautiful.

To understand the limitation of things, desire them.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart.

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.