It's engrained in us by society not to love ourselves..

Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found..

The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read..

Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to….

I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had gi….

I believe in me, in my view of the world. I believe in my responsibility for my own destiny, guilt for my own sins, merit for my own good deeds, dete….

Anything that is stifled will eventually ferment or explode..

Defeat only happens when you make the decision to stop trying. Because determination works. Steady forward motion, even if it's just a step per week,….

Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power..

I'm religiously celibate except in LA, NOLA, FLA, because there is certainly no God in any of those places. So unless you live in one of those places….

Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determi….

Determination means to use every challenge you meet as an opportunity to open your heart and soften, determined to not withdraw..

I believe that all technological societies tend to self-destruct. The reason is that the very things that make us a successful technological society,….

We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands. We shall need courage, energy and determination, but above all, we shal….

You can't find what you don't go looking for..

It is a commitment to respect whatever life brings that we develop wholehearted determination to use discomfort as an opportunity for awakening, rath….

I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there..

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have….

Strength is not gained overnight; it is cultivated over time..

Putin is somebody who really respects strength..

However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain my end..