Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation

To earn more, you must learn more.

A goal without a plan is only a dream.

Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.

Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.

There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.

The glue that holds all relationships together ... is trust, and trust is based on integrity.

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Be careful when building walls to protect yourself. Those same walls may cage you in.

If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year's 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for Britain around the globe in the 1990s and we achieved a hell of a lot.

I don't get recognised in London or at home either - very seldom anyway. Either that or I look so crazy no one wants to come up to me.

So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.

You are much closer than you think to creating a life you adore.

I have started to realize that I am really just a world athlete and a world entertainer -- I am a world-known person, I am a global icon.

Passion requires focused direction, and that direction must come from three other areas: your purpose, your talents, and your needs.

I think of writers as explorers, not necessarily as detectives. So there is certainly detecting that is going on - they're explorers.