Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

To succeed, we must first believe that we can.

To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

The more you can dream, the more you can do.

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.

Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it - ink it!

Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.

If your position is everywhere, your momentum is zero.

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

Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.

America has a unique type of poverty that looks like wealth.

I think of my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this story.

Anytime odds get stacked up against me, I feel like it's in me to beat it

Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality.

The Christian stands, not under the dictatorship of a legalistic 'you ought,' but in the magnetic field of Christian Freedom, under the empowering of the 'You may.'

To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut all in, we two draw nearer and know one another.

Young people refuse the notion that financialization defines the only acceptable definition of exchange, one that is based exclusively on the reductionist notion of buying and selling.

There are also kinds of water that cause death, as they run through harmful juices in the soil and become poisonous.

On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.

Even the best of us have certain psychological mechanisms that can suddenly kick in and turn us into monsters.