Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy, and help you to overcome procrastination as much as any other factor.

Happiness and self-confidence come naturally when you feel yourself moving and progressing toward becoming the very best person you can possibly be.

Transgression of any kind is always accompanied by a loss of self-esteem.

I believe the greatest successes you will ever attain are still waiting for you on the road ahead.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.