You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

Everything in God's store is on the bottom shelf...you have to get on your knees to get it.

Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.

There is nothing on earth that you can not have once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have it.

Think of things not as they are, but as they might be. Don't merely dream- but create.

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.

Zitner said hell would freeze over before something like that happened. Harold had a brief image of Adolf Hitler and Judas Iscariot handing out ice-skates and went on heaving sandbags.

Every July, I look forward to taping a Christmas show - in July in Nashville. In 98-degree weather. I love it.

When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.

I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out.

I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense.

It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last.

You can change your life, because you have an unlimited ability to think and talk about what you love, and so you have an unlimited ability to bring everything good in life to you.

But if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for.