Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

I am very thankful that I have lived the life I have lived. I am thankful for my Graves' disease, and I tell people, if I had my whole life to live over, I would have it, because it has really made me into the person that I am.

Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn't think we could be that strong.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.

We have learned that peace and well-being are indivisible and that our peace and well-being cannot be purchased at the price of peace or the well-being of any other country.

The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.

My brother has a tendency to get quite lyrical when he writes music; he gets so romantic, it's borderline. I make it slightly more aggressive. I make the round corner a bit sharper.

You can really only enjoy life when you're extremely busy.

As long as you keep going, you'll keep getting better. And as you get better, you gain more confidence. That alone is success.

Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home.