Total, unconditional acceptance of yourself is the first step in building a positive self-image.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision

Success doesn't come to you; you must go to it. The trail is well traveled. If you want to walk it, you can.

You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this nothing works unless you do.

If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.

The process of growing and learning always involves risk.

Hatred is the most destructive force on earth. It does the most damage to those who harbor it.

Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft

I write the sacred words from wondering.

I see you kneeling in church—stained only by colored windows

Never let anyone get the worst of you. For you too will become just like them

Boredom can be just another construct of the mind....There is always something new to notice.

You can save a lot of time waiting on God.

When you're wrong, you're wrong. But when you're right, you're wrong anyhow.

As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!

I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new.

[When to have a facelift:] If you're tripping over your neck.

I love Australia. My dream would be to have a place to live there and be able to commute back and forth