Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.

It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.

The problem with waiting until tomorrow is that when it finally arrives, it is called today.

If you don't have a plan for what you want, then you will probably find yourself buying into someone else's plan and later find out that was not the direction you wanted to go. You've got to be the architect of your life.

We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of value.

Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are.