When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn't an option. It's a necessity.

Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.

If you don’t take the time to get really clear about exactly what it is you’re trying to accomplish, then you’re forever doomed to spend your life achieving the goals of those who do.

Fear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow.

Thoughts are like seeds. If you want different results in life, you have to figure out which thoughts are capable of growing those results and which aren’t.

If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.

The most intelligent thing you can possibly do with your life is to grow.

Passion and purpose go hand in hand. When you discover your purpose, you will normally find it's something you're tremendously passionate about.

When you reach the point of becoming independent of external events, you’re truly free.

If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work.

Planning allows you to mentally create a model of your future.

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

Excessively sweet praise can rot your ego over time.

The rain is a necessary prelude to beautiful weather. So even if your heart is in downpour right now it only means it will become exceptionally beautiful in time.

It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.

There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium!

Go beyond tolerance to acceptance.

You should resolve not to seek public approval of your private business, when you are not also prepared to accept public disapproval.

We live in a world where action is what counts.

If you speak to young kids anywhere in the world, hip-hop is the music that they like to listen to more than any other type, so the influence simply cannot be underestimated.

I choose to believe in God, but I have serious doubts.