First you fuel the desire, then the desire will fuel you.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

The attempt to prevent our kids from struggling for fear it might scar their permanent records is, instead, scarring them for life.

Nothing erodes [a mother's love]. It is not sand on a beach. It is the nuclear heart of things-hard as the rock of this earth.

Search fearlessly for every sin, for out of sin comes joy.

When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.

The team with the best players wins.

Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.

The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.

I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.

Islam, at the moment, is the motherlode of bad ideas.