Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and there discovered was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

‎The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you.

You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.

Sometimes people outside of your people act more like your people than your people.

Worse still, it isn’t actually necessary to look to space for petrifying danger. As we are about to see, Earth can provide plenty of danger of its own.

Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely

Our responsibility is to get God's word to their ears. Only God can get the word from their ears to their heart.

The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility.

I like to take folks back to the turn of the century when people said 'gas cars can never replace horses because you can feed horses at your house, you get along with them, they're nice.'

Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.

It's important to remember that innovators in business don't always get a platform.

It is so surreal to come into a shop and see pictures of myself everywhere and hear my album playing.

My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.