If you check your personal blind spots, you can be able to guard against focusing on what you cannot do, but reduce the areas of weakness by taking their space with more of your strengths.

Creating the right mind-set and a positive attitude today, will help you to start crafting a clear plan of how you intend to make your life a success.

Start planning from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream.

A leader, who divides his own people, contaminates his platform and begins to destroy his own territory.

Consider your will to be the vision of your influence on earth after you cease to be a part of it. Crafting a lasting legacy means you start planning and making it possible now.

Teach faith as a non-negotiable - What should your family be aware of? Why should they be aware of these things? How will they become aware? When and at what stages must they become aware?

Everyone is a business person. You must be in the business of managing your time. Managing your time means managing your life. Good time managers are good life managers, and vice versa.

Not planning for your time expenditure simply means deliberately intending to fail.

A mission without action is equally ineffective and futile as action without mission. Use the “power of precision, ” and remember language shapes thought and thought shapes action.

The setting of SMART goals has been written about extensively over the decades, but will only be as useful as the extent to which its principles are used.

People and organisations should want to be associated with you as a brand. A sign of a depleted and irrelevant brand is unwillingness of your market or peers to associate with you.

The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.

Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea.

[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination.

Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.

Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger.

Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.

Much of anyone's game is played (or should be played) in the short six-inch course between the ears.

The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.

Like pleasure, beauty should be savored and enjoyed

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.