There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.

For something to be forbidden, Leila, someone must make it forbidden. Ask why. Always ask yourself why.

The loudest elderly women always had the quietest elderly husbands.

Intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out resources in people that they didn't know they had.

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print.

Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls.

With rap music, because it's all so on the street, you get treated like a street cat: "All right, you've been eatin' enough, you're fat, get out of the way now and let somebody else come by."

I'm certainly not fearful.

It is the empiric who never fails.

One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.