The key to success is to first know thyself. The definition of success by another person must not paralyse you or make you think less of your potential to succeed in your own way.

Creating the right mind-set and a positive attitude today, will help you to start crafting a clear plan of how you intend to make your life a success.

Start planning from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream.

A leader, who divides his own people, contaminates his platform and begins to destroy his own territory.

Consider your will to be the vision of your influence on earth after you cease to be a part of it. Crafting a lasting legacy means you start planning and making it possible now.

Teach faith as a non-negotiable - What should your family be aware of? Why should they be aware of these things? How will they become aware? When and at what stages must they become aware?

Everyone is a business person. You must be in the business of managing your time. Managing your time means managing your life. Good time managers are good life managers, and vice versa.

Not planning for your time expenditure simply means deliberately intending to fail.

A mission without action is equally ineffective and futile as action without mission. Use the “power of precision, ” and remember language shapes thought and thought shapes action.

The setting of SMART goals has been written about extensively over the decades, but will only be as useful as the extent to which its principles are used.

People and organisations should want to be associated with you as a brand. A sign of a depleted and irrelevant brand is unwillingness of your market or peers to associate with you.

To dream is to desire, to desire is to long for, to long for is to want, and to want you must work to attain all you dream of, desire, long for and want.

Failure is like flu. It can happen to anyone. Just as it is difficult to find a person who hasn’t had the flu, it is difficult to find someone who has not been stuck by failure at some time.

Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

If there is any selfish angle, then it would probably be me just knocking myself in the head, thinking "Is there anybody here? Am I still able to communicate with other musicians?"

There is no liberation without labor...and there is no freedom which is free.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.

We trust things more when they look like they were done for the love of it rather than the sheer commercial value of it.

Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.