Real persuasion comes from putting more of you into everything you say. Words have an effect. Words loaded with emotion have a powerful effect.

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

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

Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Focus on the solution, not on the problem.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries.

Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.

Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

The grace of God transforms the good soul into great soul.

Far from a normal-functioning relationship, but normal has never been our thing.

No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.

Love can make the difference-love generously given in childhood and reaching through the awkward years of youth . . . and encouragement that is quick to compliment and slow to criticize.

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

My suspicion is that once you have literacy in place, the readership has not changed very much.

One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer luck, good or ill.

And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people.