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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Success Much Overcome Life
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Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him.

Self Latter Accept Face
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Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Every Toward Current Develop
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I'm not successful in Hollywood, and I probably would never be. I think Hollywood has such an interesting model for success, and it creates those successful people. I'm not in that chosen category, but what is successful for me is that, in spite of that, I've been able to work and do the things that I wrote down that I wanted to do and be.

Success People Wrote Down
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Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

Come Half World Good
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

Happy Circumstances Combination
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Education Alone Faliure World
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People want me to be so full of shame that I used to dance. I would never be ashamed of it. I made a lot of money. I had a good time, and it showed me a lot.

Good Me Time Money
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There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.

Fierce Darkness Black Light
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What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.

Drain Spirit Body What
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We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

Community Progress Forget Achievement
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Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
Bad Creates Good Many
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Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Crazy Truly Horrible Live
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We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

Change Solemly Spread Again
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We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

Inevitable Charge Attitude Convince
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The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

Attitude Choice Day Embrace
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There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.

Rebel Direction Imitation Deep
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Education is transformational. It changes lives. That is why people work so hard to become educated and why education has always been the key to the American Dream, the force that erases arbitrary divisions of race and class and culture and unlocks every person's God-given potential.

Education Force Arbitrary Culture
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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest

Method Wisdom Reflection Imitation
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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

Act Will Heart Function
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Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

Matter Weather Sunshine Bring
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It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

What Happy Think About
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The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.

Mark Greatness Obsolete Bear
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I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.

Big Event Experiences Get
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Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, ' I apologize.' Except at a funeral.

Sorry Same Apologize Funeral
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Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

Equal Opportunity Rich Invent
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Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Little Good World Overwhelm
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To one who asked what was the proper time for lunch, he said,

Proper Time Lunch Rich
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If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.

Action Create Legacy Dream
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

Pen Sword Obvious Encounter
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When you wake up, think about winning the day. Don't worry about a week or a month from now -- just think about one day at a time. If you are worried about the mountain in the distance, you might trip over the molehill right in front of you. Win the day!

Wake Mountain Distance Trip
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If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.

Care Character Reputation Itself
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It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.

Love Appreciate Rather Compensate
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Religion should be about your relationship with God, not what the church says you can and can't do.

Relationship Religion God Church
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From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.

Tone Alone Love Awaken
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A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.

Woman Strong Hot Teabag
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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Friendship Love Risk Sharing
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Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

House Art Nature Haunt
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If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer,

Certain Person Speak Excuse
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.

Stand Gave Talent Hope
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A mind unwilling to believe or even undesirous to be instructed, our weightiest evidence must ever fail to impress. It will insist on taking that evidence in bits and rejecting item by item. As all the facts come singly, anyone who dismisses them one by one is destroying the condition under which the conviction of a new truth could ever arise in the mind.

Believe Impress Evidence Reject
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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

Moment Life Whole Blankly
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I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.

Thankful Connect Receptive Audience
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Compensate Sense Humor Imagination
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But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.

Comfortable Complete Situation Trouble
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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

Exclude Compassion Pity Deal
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Don’t confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am. My attitude depends on who you are.

Confuse Attitude Depend Personality
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But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?

Comfort Contentment End Come
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Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.

Think Something Often Beginning
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Hazard Ridicule Incur Abhorrence
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