If parents were as concerened about raising their children as they are about the outcome of their sitcom or sports game, this nation would thrive.

Success is like a seed: the more you plant, the more you receive.

You don't gain authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't have any.

You don't gain authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't any.

If you're not parenting on purpose, don't be surprised when you get chaos from the children.

Parenting the outside of the child is as useless as polishing a rotten apple.

Humility is recognizing we can't give anything to God that He hasn't already given to us.

Don't waste your time complaining, use your energy to create a solution. Even a 10% resolution is progress.

Encourage means to put courage into, and discourage is to take courage away. Don't be a courage thief.

Don't stare at the past or you'll walk right by today's opportunity. Today is God's gift to you.

Divided attention destroys best intentions. Singular focus is the friend to success.

A lie never grows old.

If I gave you a pity position it wouldn't be in my office.

Who a person is will ultimately determine if their brains, talents, competencies, energy, effort, deal-making abilities, and opportunities will succeed.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is a dissatisfaction with self.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

When you get older, keeping the private stuff private seems less important.

The protected place in space and time that we once called childhood has grown shorter.

Hell and heaven are within you, both gates are within you. When you are behaving unconsciously there is the gate of hell; when you become alert and conscious, there is the gate of heaven.

Whatever happened yesterday was the past.

We ain't have video recorders back in high school, or at least we couldn't afford them.