The report card just told me, my teacher, my parents maybe 3 weeks before when they gave me a test HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MY POTENTIAL.

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.

Boomers were the original Millennials.

Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul.

But in general, for the purposes of most novelists, the number of objects genuinely necessary for. . .describing a scene will be found to be very small.

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

Even great men can be corrupted

God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, It fills you, it thrills you with measures unbroken, And as soft, and as fair, and as far as a star.

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.

Sometimes when an actor says something almost perfect, but you know you have to edit it, if you tell them to change something immediately, it will come out great

Once a person gains experience and a good reputation, it takes less and less money to create bigger and bigger investments.

Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing.