If you had seen me back in high school, there's no way you would have ever said I would become an author or teacher because I was a horrible student.

Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poorer longer...often forever; give them knowledge instead.

If you want to change your life, begin by changing your words. Start speaking the words of your dreams, of who you want to become, not the words of fear or failure.

... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to become financially literate.

FOCUS - Follow One Course Until Successful

Remember, your mind is your greatest asset, so be careful what you put into it.

Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.

I didn’t want to dream of you anymore, so I quit sleeping.

I want to fall into the purity that is Day, soaking in his simple honesty, his heart that sits open and beating on his sleeve.

Speak after the manner of men.

People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.

... but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.

I now see Norman Thomas as indeed a liberal, but as a real, old-fashioned, unreconstructed liberal who believes in freedom and justice for everybody.

In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into action.

I mean Filth is the best British film since Trainspotting. It might even be better. I keep watching it back to back with Trainspotting to try and work out which is the best. I can't split them.

The first thing you do when you get out to center field is put up your finger and check the wind chill factor.

In a really great way, you simultaneously try to take up as little and as much space as possible.