To build a positive attitude you must take some deliberate action. You must be responsible for your thoughts, words, and actions.

Determination knows that you can do what it takes, even if that is hard or frightening, in order to achieve the goal you seek.

Do not allow your thoughts of what was to steal what can be.

Success-minded people know that the greatest enemy to today's success is yesterday's success.

Our attitude will determine what we will strive for, whom we will be, and how our life will turn out.

The secret to wealth is hard work and good management.

If someone tells you that you can achieve your dreams with little to no work, they are lying to you.

You must always think big while you start small.

The big thinking gives us vision, power and direction, but it is the small steps that are the action of the process.

It is today that tells you if you learned from yesterday, and if tomorrow is possible.

God in His perfect wisdom gave you power to control only one thing in the entire universe, and that is you.

I do not dye my hair blackso as to be young again and sin againbut because people dye their clothes black in mourning, so I have dyed my hair black, mourning for my old age.

I rode a horse into a tree. I did. But I'm okay. Horses are naturally meant to avoid trees. This one didn't.

What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.

I had an alarm, I had nerve gas, I had a yogurt. What more could anyone want?

I am too rich already, for my eyes Mint gold, while my heart cries.

Don't waste your time, it is too short, Valuable and irreplaceable.

I'm happy that Canadians are having a good debate about infrastructure, and not whether it's important but more how we're going to pay for it.

I think it's better if you write poems that look like you.

You don't have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn't like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I've been trying to change it ever since.

I don't know if it's good for baseball, but it sure beats the hell out of rooming with Phil Rizzuto!