The best way to accomplish something is to just do it, and then find the courage afterward.
It's human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
Don't be so bitter about a bad experience from your past that you miss the opportunities in front of you.
It's more important to grow your income than cut your expenses. It's more important to grow your spirit that cut your dreams.
Money is just an idea.
Escape your situation through your mind and your actions.
They are not happy out there. Take a walk today and look at how many people smile. Look at how troubled they are, unhappy, stressed out. Go through the ghetto or go through Beverly Hills.
You are about to enter the realms of human beings. Be prepared for cruelty and kindness, for friendship and hatred. People are made of all possibilities and conditions.
I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage people and give them assignments and hope they will write them.