You can't change where you started, but you can change the direction you are going. It's not what you are going to do, but it's what you are doing now that counts.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all - but to believe in the unseen is a triumph and a blessing.

The absence of consistent biblical worldview thinking is a key mark of spiritual immaturity.

In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.

If everyone doesn't pay the price to win, then everyone will pay the price of losing.

I learned a lot from both, initially Jewish and Muslim theologians that had been missing, perhaps from my rather parochial Catholic upbringing.

For visions come not to polluted eyes.

The roughest and toughest fighter I fought was Joe Frazier

A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.

I wouldn't go down the route of having an assistant. I don't want to be like that. I want to be normal.

Logic and over-analysis can immobilise and sterilize an idea. It's like love. The more you analyse it, the more it disappears.