The mind, like any muscle, must be exercised.

Not appreciating what we have now, robs us of our abundance even when it exists.

A dream becomes a goal the moment you write it down. A goal becomes a plan the moment you break it down into doable steps. A plan becomes a reality only when you take action.

When you control your thoughts and emotions, you control everything.

One of the first ways to begin building your self-confidence is to focus on what's great about you.

You must recognize that we train the people in our lives how to treat us.

Everything begins with a thought, and thoughts are turned into plans, and plans into reality.

Make no apologies for who you are.

Take charge of your environment.

You can only get more in life by saying YES.

The higher the levels, the higher the devils.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.

I'm not really opposed to people changing their minds. I'm much more concerned with people who never change their minds no matter what new information is available.

Even the worst that happens to you can be converted into GOLD if you are clever enough.

A small man intoxicated by being allowed to run around with the big, aggressive, powerful boys after so many years as a corduroy-clad peacenik.

A group called the Texas Tea Party Patriots is hosting a debate next month where Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain will go head to head, while people watching that will go head to pillow.

If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.

Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.

One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one could live in it.

Giving your book to Hollywood is like turning your daughter over to a pimp.