Michael

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.

Programming is like sex one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

In order to suceed, We must first believe that we can.

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Perhaps each life has one sensational thought, if acted upon will bring great meaning.

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

The Human Spirit can never be paralyzed. If you are breathing, you can dream.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.

Never hate your enemies, it affects you judgment.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

We haven't got the power to destroy the planet -- or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.

At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds.

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handguns use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.

The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.

Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.

Champions know that success is inevitable that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.

Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.

A champion views resistance as a gift of energy.

Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.

Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.

Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet.

What I'm concerned about is the people who don't dwell on the meaninglessness of their lives, or the meaningfulness of it-who just pursue mindless entertainment.

When salvation is viewed as man's program, it is left up to man as to whether he will let God do this or that, but when it is viewed as God's program, there is a confidence and a certainty that no one whom God regenerates will be a carnal Christian.

Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

We composers are at least as significant as the stars who make 14 million or 15 million. You just don't see us.

Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.

Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity. Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Friends are not the people you meet at the top they are the people who were with you at the bottom.

Ignorance, apathy, and lethargy cause the most problems in our world. People don't know what's going on, they don't care, and they're too lazy to find out.

There are still normal people around, they just changed the definition of normal

Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'.

The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominate political mythology.

Truth is beautiful and divine no matter how humble its origin.

The most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.

A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.

The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for perfection is God's business.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.

To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

I am open to receive with every breath I breathe.