To reach any significant goal, you must leave your comfort zone.

A goal is a planned conflict with the status quo.

You cannot motivate anyone but yourself. To enhance or cause action in another person, you must create an atmosphere around them wherein they will want to motivate themselves.

Time management is only a set of skills and tools to help us more efficiently control the eventsour our lives.

Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . . a great definition. . . Charity: The ability to love the sinner and hate the sin.

A goal is a planned event

Money is only a byproduct of being engaged in a worthy cause.

When you cross that chasm so that what you believe to be true merges into what is actually true, you have earned the right to inner peace.

How we choose to deal with pain is ultimately the measure of who we are and of the success we have in closing our gaps.

Your governing values should be important enough to you that you will invest your time, resources, and energy in making them a fundamental part of your life.

Character, simply stated, is doing what you say you’re going to do.

I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.

Education is unfolding the wings of head and heart together. The job of a teacher is to push the students out of the nest to strengthen their wings.

Your desire shall be your delight.

What can you talk to sky? Just nothing...simply enjoy the vastness and magnanimity. What can you talk to ocean? Nothing....enjoy the waves.

One evening when I had my wood-burning stove going I realized I hadn't thought of dessert.

In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry.

Seldom, if ever, does wisdom come, shall we punish it if it comes late?

I used to want to be a movie star so I wouldn't have to live in trailers anymore. And now that I make movies, I spend a lot of my life living in trailers.

Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.

Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?