Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and you will accomplish your object.

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.

Never buy anything in a room with a chandelier.

You only get one chance to make a good first impression, and yours may be in the hands of the receptionist.

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.

If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.

A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.

None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone's help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.

There is a time to provide advice and offer an opinion, and there is a time not to. Don't be too quick to offer unsolicited advice. It certainly will not endear you to people.

I have never learned how to tell somebody something good about myself

You might plan how you sleep but you can't plan how you wake up. He who plans how to sleep is a Planner, he who plans how to wake up is a Dreamer.

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail.

And I stood there and took it because I was an object. We were all objects to Marcus McCoy.

Fight the fighters, not their wars.

Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences.

I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures.

You don't need to know what tomorrow holds; all you need to know is the One who holds tomorrow.

Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.