If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

Everything in God's store is on the bottom shelf...you have to get on your knees to get it.

Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.

There is nothing on earth that you can not have once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have it.

Think of things not as they are, but as they might be. Don't merely dream- but create.

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.

Without ‘Gnan’ (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away.

Because of the gospel -- the news about what Jesus did on the cross to save sinners -- mothers who make Christ their treasure can rejoice in their work as God works in them.

Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.

A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed.

The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read.

Every choice we make can be a celebration of the world we want.

Love will make a way out of no way

Because Katrina put it out there, no one can play the pretend game anymore that there isn't poverty and inequality in this country. The Millions More Movement - Katrina gives it added significance.

You don't buy evil characters lattes. That's not normal behavior.