I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first Chicken Soup for the Soul book.

To achieve your dreams, work is required. Suffering is optional.

We are God’s gift to each other. Like a master composer, He brings all the instruments together, each with a different tone, each playing a different part, and He makes it turn out so beautifully.

Persistence is probably the single most common quality of high achievers. They simply refuse to give up. They longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist the more likely your success.

To attract more money, you must be attractive, in the sense that people will want and prefer your products or service over those of your competitior.

What we have to get straight in our heads is that owning the money doesn't mean ANYTHING. "It's the DOING with money that develops us - it's not in the having. And when you have more, you're enabled to DO more."

Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.