Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad.

My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.

If it's not an absolute YES, it's a NO

When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness.

To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.

Jack, get a grip of yourself.' I have a grip of myself.' Jack took a grip of himself. It was a most intimate grip; not the kind of grip that you usually take of yourself in public.

The funny thing about gold is how quickly it can tarnish.