“Realize how good you really are.”

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

Success and rest don’t sleep together.

Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.

Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.

Never, in all of the seventy billion humans who have walked this planet since the beginning of time has there been anyone exactly like you.

Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.

Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them as you make the effort.

Never settle for the crumbs of life.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more.

Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

Do all things with love.

I will persist. I will always take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

You can’t conquer reality by running away from it.

If you believe Jesus ever had a good word for war or torture or tax cuts for the rich, or raping the earth, or refusing water to dying migrants, then you might as well believe bunnies lay painted eggs.

A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.

Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.

I wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.

Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.

Everyone deserves to feel good about themselves, and if you don’t then start because everyone is beautiful.

An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.

No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.