For every promise, there is a price to pay... If the promise is clear, the price is easy.

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

Either you run the day or the day runs you..

Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Focus on the solution, not on the problem.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries.

Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.

If you have the dedication, means and patience to treat your daily struggle, like a step towards success, something bigger will come your way.

You always have something left to lose. Until, of course, you die.

I've been singing since I was 16 because I love it - I wanted to be a singer, not a star. There's a difference between wanting to be famous and wanting to sing well.

I grew up watching and learning from the ultimate partnership, and that is of my father and late uncle.

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

The word comfort is from two Latin words meaning “with” and “strong” – He is with us to make us strong. Comfort is not soft, weakening commiseration; it is true, strengthening love.

He who once became aware of the power of Solidarity and who breathed the air of freedom will not be crushed.

Jesus, man. Why do people want to be Paris Hilton and nobody wants to be Spider-Man?

The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way.

I've been a financial journalist for 30 years.