Discipline is giving yourself a command and following it up with action

No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.

If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand.

Faith and fear both demand you believe in something you cannot see. You choose.

Your outside world is a reflection of your inside world. What goes on in the inside, shows on the outside.

Richness is not about what you have. It is about who you are.

Your real purpose in life is to develop yourself. To successfully do this you must always be working toward a goal.

Being a winner is never an accident; winning comes about by design, determination and positive action.

A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.

By thinking about your goals every morning, many times during the day, and every night, you begin moving toward it, and bringing it toward you.

The only competition you will ever face is with your own ignorance.

...always-the sharp, plaintive edgeon the rimof the spoonof my giving.(lines 8-13 of the poem 'Confessions')

Blue for everyone but it was not for freedom.Just like you, like me

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes. It is equivalent to a sense of abusing the present.

There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.

We confuse ourselves with space-time events, when in fact we are the ones who generate these space-time events.

I'm always playing extremes, either the vulnerable girl or the vixen.

If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it.

If white and black and red and brown can come together to focus our energies on overcoming the racial malaise that persists, then this will have been a great moment.

There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But even in more contemporary writing it's called 'the big C'.

The universe is the primary revelation of the divine, the primary scripture, the primary locus of divine-human communication.