You do not reduce or eliminate your concerns by crying, shouting or proving you are the victim of whatever happened in your life.

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.

I'm a huge Coppola fan. But more of 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Conversation.' 'The Godfather' for me is, like, number three or four on the list.

Art must always remain earnest... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one.

We need a leader who won't be silent - as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have been - as millions of Christians are persecuted throughout the Middle East.

If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.

Are you OLD?" "No. I'm only twelve. But I've been that for a long time.

Cowboy movies aren't supposed to be in vogue. I still like them. You know, I'm still out there pitching the hell out of them.

Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure.

Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy.

Here is a paradox. It would seem that there cannot be surrealism and photography, but only photography or surrealism.

Is the fire gone?" "Yes," I sighed. "Thank you, Edward." "I love you," he answered. "I know," I breathed, so tired. I heard my favorite sound in the world: Edward's quiet laugh, weak with relief.