Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit.
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you.
Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much better.
Whenever you feel uncomfortable, instead of retreating back into your old comfort zone, pat yourself on the back and say, "I must be growing," and continue moving forward.
Every failure is a step to success.
Out of difficulties grow miracles.
Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.
You quit, you lose. You keep going, you may still lose. But, your ambition will never die.
Have a dream, make a plan, go for it. You'll get there, I promise.
You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.
Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
The past is a trail you leave behind, much like the wake of a speedboat. That is, it's a vanishing trail temporarily showing you where you were. The wake of a boat doesn't affect it's course-obviously it can't since it appears behind the boat. So consider this image when you exclaim that your past is the reason you aren't moving forward.
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
80% of people's problems are about how they feel about themselves.
See every difficulty as a challenge, a stepping stone, and never be defeated by anything or anyone.
Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, because there are things Eric thinks I'm moving too quickly on, and there are things I think he's dragging out. When it gets to the editor they can arbitrate.
The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.