You are being programmed all day, every day. You can't stop it, but you can determine if the programming is positive or negative.

People think that the opposite of success is failure, but it's not. Failure is part of the process of success.

You don’t create your future. You create your daily habits, and they create your future.

When you get negative people out of your life, negative things stop happening to you.

You may think pain is a barricade to success, but it's usually a bridge.

You're not poor because you don't have money. You're poor if you don't have a dream.

Be willing to let go of who you are, to become who you might be

Only acknowledge your limitations for the purpose of overcoming them.

For every person seeking greatness, there are hundreds more charged with safeguarding mediocrity. If you want to be wealthy, stop taking financial advice from broke people.

The next time your core beliefs are challenged - try being curious instead of furious.

Success without duplication is merely future failure in disguise.

Ghosts... they are the completions of the deads intended gestures, there unfinished plans still hanging in the air - something like when you forgot one thing and so you pantomime the motion.

Teachers are the worst. Just shameless about kicking off their rivals.

Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being.

When you get deep ecologists who are philosophers, and they drive cars and take newspapers and don't grow their own vegetables, in fact they're not deep ecologists - they're my enemies.

There would be no population explosion if people who are trying to keep the wolf from the door wouldn't let the stork fly in through the window.

The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar.

Sailing has given me some of the most pleasant and exciting moments of my life. It also has taught me something of the courage, resourcefulness, and strength of men who sail the seas in ships.

I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.

I like to tell students, 'I didn't burst on to the literary scene.' I'm never good at things at the beginning. I was terrible at the start. I need to work and work.

I just go out every day and try to work hard.