If giving hurts, then receiving will likely hurt, and you must again ask yourself why you feel or think the way you do.

Successful people got to where they did because they did something, and all successful endeavors exist because of those who acted.

Unless you keep focused on your desires through images, repetition and a positive attitude, it will come to nothing.

The sooner you master your mind, the sooner you master yourself.

We are energy, and like all energy, we are in constant change.

If you truly want to help the poor, first become rich yourself.

Understand that you and you alone create your own opportunities, whether they come to you in the form of a lottery ticket, or a promotion, you brought that into your life.

Once you know what you want, even if you can’t see it, even if you do not know how you will get it, you have to trust that it is there.

Things, events and people align and position themselves accordingly when a strong enough thought stirs them.

Life can only give you what you give back to it, and it all begins with the right attitude.

Simply put, mind power is placing a request, or a wish, if you will, and trusting that somehow it will come to be.

The heart knows what it feels.

Fighting to fit in. Confidence is paper thin.

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

I say no to a lot of things that just don't fit my life. I involve my kids in what I'm struggling with so they don't compete with it.

A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.

I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

I certainly never get above my station - my family would soon slap me back down to earth.

The guys who take shortcuts, who aren't ready, they fail when their opportunity comes

When you've got it, flaunt it.