Problems come few and far between in the life of a proactive person.

When you know your role in life, living makes sense because of clarity, and the loads become enjoyable to carry.

There are many things that you can avoid by just knowing something. Knowledge of self is the most notable knowledge I pursue. By knowing myself, I avoided dead dreams and a meaningless life.

Change is a friend to a life with a vision, but an enemy to an aimless person.

You shouldn't expect anyone to give you a vision. A vision is not given, it's created, by you.

Money doesn't change you, it reveals you. Money is just an enabler, whatever a person chooses to do with it is a reflection of their character.

One of the most valuable gifts that a person can give (or receive) is a productive mentality. It is with a productive mentality that people change their lives for the better, in ways profound.

I believe that if you can't agree with how they think, then it's better to learn from their difference.

Nobody alive today can tell me how much I am worth. I change that everyday.

I do not wish for anyone's downfall. The world needs successful people. I just think of ways to add more value to myself, and wish that my adversaries would do the same.

My worth changes with every choice I make and every action I take. I can choose myself to uselessness or to being valuable.

All learning has an emotional base.

True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings Kings it makes Gods and meaner creatures kings.

I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.

The state of presence is the only state in which creative energy is available to you.

If I can not dance, I want no part in your revolution.

That's where I got the idea to paint the walls of the gallery with varied colours [at the Whitechapel show]. I tried to figure out how all these Renaissance paintings manage to work together.

Presbyterians are the spirit of the Antichrist.

Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.

Memory overshadows the present and dims the future "into something thicker than its usual pea soup."

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!