No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.

If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand.

Faith and fear both demand you believe in something you cannot see. You choose.

Your outside world is a reflection of your inside world. What goes on in the inside, shows on the outside.

Richness is not about what you have. It is about who you are.

Your real purpose in life is to develop yourself. To successfully do this you must always be working toward a goal.

Being a winner is never an accident; winning comes about by design, determination and positive action.

A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.

By thinking about your goals every morning, many times during the day, and every night, you begin moving toward it, and bringing it toward you.

The only competition you will ever face is with your own ignorance.

There is no problem outside of you that is superior to the power within you.

An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.

Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.

My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.

You can't have a country or a city or a state that's worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life.

We have [in Valerian] a bible that's 600 pages. There are five pages on each alien and where they come from. Even the address you can check on the map. On the star map. It's real numbers.

You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).

...instead it seems that business - like weight loss - is a subject wherein hope and fear inspire limitless gullibility.

I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.

Unconsciously, I think I watch for a look, an expression, features or nostalgia that can summarize or more accurately reveal life.