The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

Discover what you need to do to make your life have meaning.

that love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.

Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking.

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

The Obama-Clinton administration tried repeatedly to remove our cruisers from service, then refused to modernize these very old, aging, aging ships. They're old. They're tired.

Absence is the dark-room in which lovers develop negatives.

Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: A government and a society that silences those who dissent is one that has lost its way.

When the music arrives in my mind, it gives me the direction and the form at the same time. It's integrated into the music itself.

I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.