Whilst a level playing field cannot be guaranteed, one thing that is guaranteed is your fair share of challenges. It’s not a matter of IF they come, but WHEN you will encounter them.

Creating the right mind-set and a positive attitude today, will help you to start crafting a clear plan of how you intend to make your life a success.

Start planning from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream.

A leader, who divides his own people, contaminates his platform and begins to destroy his own territory.

Consider your will to be the vision of your influence on earth after you cease to be a part of it. Crafting a lasting legacy means you start planning and making it possible now.

Teach faith as a non-negotiable - What should your family be aware of? Why should they be aware of these things? How will they become aware? When and at what stages must they become aware?

Everyone is a business person. You must be in the business of managing your time. Managing your time means managing your life. Good time managers are good life managers, and vice versa.

Not planning for your time expenditure simply means deliberately intending to fail.

A mission without action is equally ineffective and futile as action without mission. Use the “power of precision, ” and remember language shapes thought and thought shapes action.

The setting of SMART goals has been written about extensively over the decades, but will only be as useful as the extent to which its principles are used.

People and organisations should want to be associated with you as a brand. A sign of a depleted and irrelevant brand is unwillingness of your market or peers to associate with you.

Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning they are well informed.

I bring up God alot in my show, know why? Because I miss him.

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.

Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.

Even-handed fate Hath but one law for small and great: That ample urn holds all men's names.

Don't lecture someone on their choices when you don't know their story.

Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

My favourite victory is when it is not even clear where my opponent made a mistake.

I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.