“Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.”

Success? I don’t know what that word means. I’m happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody’s eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace.

I’m not a film buff. I don’t watch a lot of movies.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

Fulfilment comes from serving others, not just hustling to serve yourself.

A dream without a goal, and without action, has no opportunity to come true.

Life is a melting pot of knowledge and experience, both your own and that of everyone around you.

Trust yourself and trust your choices.

You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.

Never compromise on who you are. You are born with the capacity to achieve greatness if you so desire.

Dreams without goals remain dreams.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

In order to change your life, you must change your thoughts.

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

Learning to say no is a critical element to access greatness in your life.

On the path to success, there is always going to be an opportunity to help someone else be successful too. Take that opportunity, and be the kind of person who makes a difference in the lives of others.

I sent her a bottle of the most expensive wine on the menu. She sent me a note: “I will not touch a drop of this wine unless you can assure me that you have seven inches in your pants. ” So I wrote back: “Give me the wine. As gorgeous as you are, I’m not cutting off three inches for anyone.

The undertakings enter unto (“les engagements contractés”, Fr.), nothing assure that we will not break them, possibly (“éventuellement”, Fr.) in another.

Credibility’ is defined as the willingness to kill a lot of people now for a not very good cause to assure the world that we’ll kill a lot more people if we can find a better one.

We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]

I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.

[On her recently widowed father’s much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably.

This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I’m discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it’s a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.

Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I’m simply worried.