Seek the counsel of men who will tell you the truth about yourself, even if it hurts you to hear it. Mere commendation will not bring the improvement you need.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

As a leader, if you can no longer inspire your people it is time to step aside and let someone else take the lead

A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.

For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.

I have T.V. on all the time when I'm writing. I have music on. I'm engaged with the world.

I would have loved to have met Marilyn Monroe and have dinner with her.

I'm not really a guy who draws on things from my own past.

The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the surrealist preferences which rule photographic taste.

If you can't understand the blues, you don't know much

The main quality of leadership..........is courage ! If you can dream it, you can do it!