Every effective person must be able to sell and teach, whether in private or to a group in public. This applies equally to skills and talents as it does to products and services.

Creating the right mind-set and a positive attitude today, will help you to start crafting a clear plan of how you intend to make your life a success.

Start planning from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream.

A leader, who divides his own people, contaminates his platform and begins to destroy his own territory.

Consider your will to be the vision of your influence on earth after you cease to be a part of it. Crafting a lasting legacy means you start planning and making it possible now.

Teach faith as a non-negotiable - What should your family be aware of? Why should they be aware of these things? How will they become aware? When and at what stages must they become aware?

Everyone is a business person. You must be in the business of managing your time. Managing your time means managing your life. Good time managers are good life managers, and vice versa.

Not planning for your time expenditure simply means deliberately intending to fail.

A mission without action is equally ineffective and futile as action without mission. Use the “power of precision, ” and remember language shapes thought and thought shapes action.

The setting of SMART goals has been written about extensively over the decades, but will only be as useful as the extent to which its principles are used.

People and organisations should want to be associated with you as a brand. A sign of a depleted and irrelevant brand is unwillingness of your market or peers to associate with you.

Fears will cost your life.

Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power

Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it.

I hate to do anything that is going to stop or suppress free speech.

A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.

I would like my album to be on the pop side with a little bit of soul. I would like to make music that is on the top of the charts right now.

We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act.

I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and I have my youth.

I grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers.

The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.