Your first and foremost job as a LEADER is to take charge of your own energy.

No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.

If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand.

Faith and fear both demand you believe in something you cannot see. You choose.

Your outside world is a reflection of your inside world. What goes on in the inside, shows on the outside.

Richness is not about what you have. It is about who you are.

Your real purpose in life is to develop yourself. To successfully do this you must always be working toward a goal.

Being a winner is never an accident; winning comes about by design, determination and positive action.

A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.

By thinking about your goals every morning, many times during the day, and every night, you begin moving toward it, and bringing it toward you.

The only competition you will ever face is with your own ignorance.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

Don’t let the society or your own family or anybody to kill your dreams because your dreams are yourself!

Powell’s face appeared on screen. “It’s true, the doomsday crowd is a little crazy, ” she said, looking thoughtful. “But that doesn’t mean they’re wrong.

If you have an elegant stance, a noble stance, an ethical stance or a scientific stance, you will not be appreciated by the inelegant, by the ignoble, by the unethical or by the unscientific people!

All doubt is cowardice - all trust is brave.

Trying to keep up with current slang sucks.

I did think reviewers were supposed to be polite about story collections - collections are rather delicate creatures in the literary environment - but not everybody got this memo, I guess.

If my time with my kids is shorter than it was yesterday, it's better than nothing.

I try to do one to two days with no meat. I try to lessen my gluten. Those are things that I struggle with.

Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.