I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel.
If thou dost not sow, thou shalt not reap.
You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.
There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire.
Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.
The first thing to do about an obstacle is simply to stand up to it and not complain about it or whine under it but forthrightly attack it. Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle.
The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich
The difference to me is not between the believers on one hand and the nonbelievers on the other hand. It's between people who carry in their hearts some sense of what the word "God," at least to me, means, which is a loving, creating, everlastingly renewing presence deeply concerned with the well-being of the earth and all its creatures.
I think there's a good kid underneath everybody. I really do.
I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work.
The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.