Benchmark your performance against your best competitors. Think how you can beat them next time.

To earn more, you must learn more.

A goal without a plan is only a dream.

Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.

Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.

There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.

The glue that holds all relationships together ... is trust, and trust is based on integrity.

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Being confident means you know who you are, your strength and your limitation.

Compromise cannot be allowed in cases where the exact truth is ascertainable.

Fruit forced is never half so sweet / As that comes quite in season.

It's my feeling that any writer can get an emotion into a story without being sentimental as long as the emotion is dealt with honestly, with sufficient clarity, and detail.

I have always wanted my art to service my people - to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to make us aware of our potential. We have to create an art for liberation and for life.

The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color of its surroundings.

Be who you are, and go the whole way.

Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom

Short is the little which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain.

Coffee takes on an almost ritualistic meaning. I learned that from being on hurricane patrol for a year in the North Atlantic.