For good or ill, your habits will make or break you.

Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.

If you don’t take the time to get really clear about exactly what it is you’re trying to accomplish, then you’re forever doomed to spend your life achieving the goals of those who do.

When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn't an option. It's a necessity.

Fear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow.

Thoughts are like seeds. If you want different results in life, you have to figure out which thoughts are capable of growing those results and which aren’t.

If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.

The most intelligent thing you can possibly do with your life is to grow.

Passion and purpose go hand in hand. When you discover your purpose, you will normally find it's something you're tremendously passionate about.

When you reach the point of becoming independent of external events, you’re truly free.

If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work.

Once you choose to love yourself then everything else will be perfect.

Don't worry about what you're writing or whether it's good or even whether it makes sense.

Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.

The courageous man is the man who forces himself, in spite of his fear, to carry on.

It's always challenging to go into a role.

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

I understand why many are still poor or struggling to make just a middle-income lifestyle. I'm a fiscal conservative, but I also have compassion for people who make financial mistakes.

To protect any community, we need intelligence and to nourish it we need humility.

If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?

You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel ur own emotion