Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision

Success doesn't come to you; you must go to it. The trail is well traveled. If you want to walk it, you can.

You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this nothing works unless you do.

If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.

The process of growing and learning always involves risk.

Hatred is the most destructive force on earth. It does the most damage to those who harbor it.

For many people, change is more threatening than challenging. They see it as the destroyer of what is familiar and comfortable rather than the creator of what is new and exciting.

She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.

A lie, when believed, became the truth.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.

Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.

Don't you realize," Merlin said to his pupil, "that the history of the universe has brought us here to this second?

I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

Even though it'll never be flat again, my stomach is my favorite part of my body because it reminds me of my greatest achievement - my babies.

The mad person who knows that they are mad is close to sanity.

Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the relation of right means for given ends.