You can't succeed by being good. That's what you get paid for. You can't succeed by being excellent. That's what you're expected to do. You can only succeed by being outstanding.

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can't have it.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

It's pretty simple - The Action you take will determine the results you Achieve.

Nothing can drag you down if you're not holding on to it.

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

Its not about the goal. Its about growing to become the person that can accomplish that goal.

We have to bring in captivity every high thing in people’s mind.

The question to always be in your inner dialogue, asking yourself...is it kind?

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it but because I see everything by it.

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

Make choices-not excuses.

I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?

If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.

I try to operate on two unconnected levels. One on the practical level of action in which I am extremely cautious and conservative. The second is the realm of ideas where I try to be very free

When you people have a set up joke and the joke is set up straight and the words are just well written, I always say "C'mon, humans don't speak that way."