If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world.

If you want to move to a new level in your life, you must break through your comfort zone and practice doing things that are not comfortable.

If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!

If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.

Rich people play the money game to win. Poor people play the money game to not lose.

Where attention goes, energy flows and results show.

In my experience, getting rich takes focus, courage, knowledge, expertise, 100 percent of your effort, a never-give-up attitude and of course a rich mind-set.

From now on, I want you to practice reframing other people's negativity as a reminder of how not to be.

Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world.

Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don't let these feelings stop them.

Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.

No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.

In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.

I don't get tired, because every time a woman doesn't die or doesn't get beaten or doesn't get raped or doesn't get honor-killed or doesn't get acid-burned, it's a huge victory.

I'm not hard to please, I'm content with the very best.

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.

My grandmother could never have written a memoir, so 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' is a homage to her life, and to the lives of other young women of her generation, which are so rarely articulated.

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.

... the kids do what no one expects them to do. That's progress.