"The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy."

"Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. "

"When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it."

"You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight."

"A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images."

"William James described success as a combination of two things. An inner ideal which is followed persistently with courage and Outer achievement related to that ideal."

"Until is a very important word. It means that you will never give up."

"Whatever good things we build end up building us."

"Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people."

"The book you don't read won't help."

"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present."

"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention."

"Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion."

"If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree."

"Always do more than you get paid for to make an investment in your future."

"Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know."

"Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job you can make a living, but if you work hard on yourself you'll make a fortune."

"Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way."

"Money is usually attracted, not pursued."

"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day."

"Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness."

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."

"We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment."

"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job."

"Either you run the day or the day runs you."

"Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day."

"The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become."

"Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time."

"You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour."

"Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value."

"A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things."

"Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want."

"Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you."

"We get paid for bringing value to the market place."

"The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path."

"You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life."

"The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch."

"Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become."

"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."

"Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future."