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If you never venture beyond what you know, you've spawned your own limitations. You've erected the walls of your own private prison cell.

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, or a parent.

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

Every day we are called to do small things with great love.

Where do the mermaids stand? Answer that question, and you could build a school, a nation, or a whole world on it.

We come in naked and broke. We may be dressed when we go out, but we're just as broke.

Giving is not something that should be saved for the sweet by and by. It should be a lifelong practice.

A billion dollars — what's that? It's a backyard barbecue to the Creator of the universe. So give it away. All of it.

He was committed to lifelong learning. He settled for nothing less than excellence. He not only sought truth — Galileo believed more than anything else that he would find it.

Not experiencing any failure in life is rarely a sign of perfection. Rather, it's a sign that your goals are not bold enough.

That's the power of truth and learning and excellence — the search for what it is that ignites the human spirit, overcoming the unexpected and discovering the unknown. That's what life is all about.

Believe that the sort of life you wish to live is, at this very moment, just waiting for you to summon it up. And when you wish for it, you begin moving toward it, and it, in turn, begins moving toward you.