Your attitude towards problems, difficulties, and adversities is the most important factor in overcoming them.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.

The lows may be the highs in disguise.

Youth is as easily wasted as a fine wine consumed by a drunken man. There is no poetry in aging, and Javert lived out the process in its most hideous iteration.

If your self-worth is based on anything other than your relationship with Christ, you are in big trouble.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

Perhaps the most important thing we can ever do in our lives is find a way to keep the wild-both the wild inside and the wild outside us-and tap into it.

A leader has to appear consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.

His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.

Every song I've ever written has been based in reality, based in fact, things that happen to me.