Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs

To have an incredible increase in self esteem, all you have to do is start doing some little something. You don't have to do spectacularly dramatic things for self esteem to start going off the scale. Just make a commitment to any easy discipline. Then another one and another one.

The two great words of antiquity are behold and beware. Behold the possibilities and beware the temptations.

If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process.

The difference between being ordinary and extraordinary is doing the right thing while nobody is watching.

There is plenty of time to argue with new ideas later. They key is to take careful notes first and debate second.

Your life, my life, the life of each one of us is going to serve as either a warning or an example. A warning of the consequences of neglect, self-pity, lack of direction and ambition... or an example of talent put to use, of discipline self-imposed, and of objectives clearly perceived and intensely pursued.