Your life today is, for the most part, a manifestation of the stories you told yourself in the past.

Think, dream and expect great things. For would you rather be correct in your perception? Or would you rather be exceptional in your life?

Leaders lead themselves first and foremost. Only then can they act as example and inspiration to others.

The leader acknowledges and eradicates the weeds in the garden, but keeps vision on the beauty they are creating and not on the weeds they are destroying

Do we follow the road life’s placed before us? Or do we dare step up and forge an exceptional path. A path fraught with struggle and sacrifice, Yet one whose outcome places us in destiny’s arms.

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

It is better for you to read the Holy Bible, for your own enlightenment.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

The greatest menace in this country is not the bootlegger, but the college professor who rejects the Bible and undermines the faith of the young.

The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.

I don't write poetry for the page because my inclination in that area is satisfied by songwriting. "Ornamental Hermit" was a comparatively effortless song to write, which is rare for me.

As every bookie knows instinctively, a number such as reliability - a qualitative rather than a quantitative measure - is needed to make the valuation of information practically useful.

Words are so awesome. Words are containers for power. They carry either creative power or destructive power.

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

Each of us has much for which to be grateful if we will but pause and contemplate our blessings.