For me, intuitive thinking means associative thinking; intuition causes us to introduce narrative or figurative elements into a poem before we're able to explain why those elements belong.

Often what may appear as a detour in life is actually the most direct and empowering path to your destination.

While the cat's away, the mice will play.

You'll never be fully engaged in where you are or where you're going by settling for normal. Here's a fact: No one who was normal ever made history. Drop that fantasy like a hot rock!

God's greatest gift to you is your unlimited potential. Your greatest gift to God is to use that potential to the fullest.

In your life's defining moments there are two choices - you either step forward in faith and power or you step backward into fear.

Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention.

The content of your thoughts and personal beliefs can be proven by a single indicator - your current results.

Control is never achieved when sought after directly; it is the surprising result of letting go.

The journey of true success and lasting leaderships begins with the inward journey to the soul.

The seed you sow today will not produce crop till tomorrow. For this reason, your identity does not lie in your current results. This is not who you are. your current results are who you were.

Without such trust and safety, social relationships tend to become strategic rather than cooperative, increasingly full of skepticism and even anxiety and fear about others' intentions. (p. 27)

Surrender to your soul and spirit.

It's an honor to be compared with Terry Bradshaw. If I could do half of what he did, I'd be very happy.

A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

I watch very little television, actually. There's so many shows I want to watch and then I know I'll get hooked and I have to binge-watch the entire thing.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

Nobody wants to follow somebody who doesn't know where he's going.

I want to appear ordinary, but I have it understood that I am not.

Every race man and woman should cast aside their skepticism regarding the Negro's ability as a motion picture star.

As a natural process, of the same character as the development of a tree from its seed, or of a fowl from its egg, evolution excludes creation and all other kinds of supernatural intervention.