Your reputation is none of your business.

Live as if your prayers are to be answered.

What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

If you want to be confident, but don't normally act that way, today, just this once, act in the physical world the way you believe a confident person would.

Compassion becomes an automatic reaction when you see all of humanity as one undivided and indivisible family.

Failing is a judgment that we humans place on a given action. Rather than judgment, substitute this attitude: You cannot fail, you can only produce results.