Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

To earn more, you must learn more.

A goal without a plan is only a dream.

Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.

Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.

There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.

The glue that holds all relationships together ... is trust, and trust is based on integrity.

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

The world outside is a strange, but relentless mirror.

Delicious days ahead for solitude and writing and, oh yes, the holiday meal with family. Live with my characters until term starts in 2012!

But stronger and brighter than any other was his mate bond with Lana. She was in every beat of his heart, the very fire in his blood. How could anyone have ever doubted his feelings for her?

To win one's joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

Let us remember that all reforms are interdependent, and that whatever is done to establish one principle on a solid base, strengthens all.

To reach a port we must set sail

I think I feel on the whole that something's there trying to get out ... It's sort of trying to get out and wants help.

The endgame is an arena in which miraculous escapes are not uncommon.

Reading [John] Calvin is a breath of fresh air.

I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.