Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

Everything in God's store is on the bottom shelf...you have to get on your knees to get it.

Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.

There is nothing on earth that you can not have once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have it.

Think of things not as they are, but as they might be. Don't merely dream- but create.

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.

It is easier to begin well than to finish well.

America is a very seductive place in terms of lifestyle and comfort, but it wasn't for me.

American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap.

Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters.

I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

I believe that crisis really tends to help develop the characer of an organisation.

My dad was a doctor and surgeon. He was the fifth generation of his family to become a doctor.

The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.

Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become.