Most of us tend to suffer from 'agenda anxiety', the feeling that what we want to say to others is more important than what we think they might want to say to us.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision

Success doesn't come to you; you must go to it. The trail is well traveled. If you want to walk it, you can.

You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this nothing works unless you do.

If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.

The process of growing and learning always involves risk.

Hatred is the most destructive force on earth. It does the most damage to those who harbor it.

Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft

I'm just so tired of life being something that happens to me. That's not how it's supposed to work. I'm supposed to make my own life.

Most of your problems exist because your heart is hard and you are being arrogant.

I'm the guy with the good attitude towards menstruation.

Communities are made up of the unlovable as well as the lovable.

The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.

Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form.

If you want a testimony, you are going to have a test.

We don't have a lot of neighbors so we can blast the stereo

the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.

Sisterhood is powerful. It kills. Mostly sisters.