When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or "willpower.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible.

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.

We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something.

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.

The biggest secret of self-esteem is this: Begin to appreciate other people more; show respect for any human being merely because he is a child of God and therefore a thing of value.

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

There is no honor in cruelty.

Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better.

If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.

Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God, here and now.

I think fashion in motion is going to happen. I think that's the way things are going, but there are people who will still want to see a picture and to be able to hold it.

I've still kind of maintained a low profile but people still kind of recognize you and will come up to you, and that's taken a bit of getting used to.

There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.

There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.

Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'