Here is the first step toward success. It's a basic step. It can't be avoided. Step One: Believe in yourself, believe you can succeed.

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family back-ground; they are measured by the size of their thinking.

Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements.

Those who believe they can move mountains, do!

The thought "It's impossible" sets off a chain reaction of other thoughts to prove you're right.

People do more for you when you make them feel important.

Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.

Belief releases creative powers.

The thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than how much intelligence you may have.

The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise.

Erik, Erik! I saved your life! Remember? You were scentenced to death! But for me you would be dead by now.

It had taken going to hell for Zed to find what he'd unknowingly been searching for his whole life.

One of the problems with organized religion is that it has always kept women in a second-class position. They have been viewed as the daughters of Eve.

I always emphasize that it is much safer and better to keep one's own religious faith. The other major religions are thousands of years old and have long traditions.

There are many occasions in literature in which telling is far more effective than showing.

You can't trust very many people.

Being on a ship is something like being pregnant. You can sit there and do absolutely nothing but stare at the water and have the nicest sense that you are accomplishing something.

There's no rule that everyone has to change.

We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it.

I started designing the greenest the most connected home before the iPhone and the iPad.