I think one of the mistakes typically with authors is they have written more books than they've read.

You are not paid to work hard. In fact, you are not paid for effort at all. You are paid for results. It's not what you do; it's what you get done.

Every single person on the planet is rewarded for one thing and one thing only, and that is for serving other people. The more you serve others, the higher your reward.

Discover your uniqueness and learn to exploit it in the service of others, and you are guaranteed success, happiness, and prosperity.

Your thoughts, your words, and your actions created the life you are living. You create your results—no one else.

Dreams don't come true. Plans come true!

Everything in your life gets better when you get better, and nothing is ever going to get better until you get better.

Stress comes from knowing what is right and doing what is wrong

Don’t measure busywork. Don’t measure activity. Measure accomplishment. It doesn’t matter what people do as much as it matters what they get done.

Do what you say you are going to do, when you say you are going to do it, in the way you said you were going to do it.

If it's a good idea, do it today. Not tomorrow. A good idea rarely gets better over time.

Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated.

Seeking to know is too often learning to doubt

I have been in films before where people have been in a rush to label them as a Black film or even as a history lesson. These are ways to make the film feel niche and not for everyone.

Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.

I think being a woman in Hollywood is a big enough challenge. It really is. I don't want to be one of those people who complain. But the lack of roles out there - it's unbelievable.

The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform.

Are you willing to stay right where you are and let the Lord do great things through you, though no one may seem to notice at all?

Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'

Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.

It's too sad to live eating theories. The best thing is to transmute wisdom into love.