Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.

Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got.

There is something magical about putting a problem in writing. It is almost as though by writing about what is wrong, you start to discover new ways of making it right.

I used to say, ‘Things cost too much.’ Then my teacher straightened me out on that by saying, ‘The problem isn’t that things cost too much. The problem is that you can’t afford it.’ That’s when I finally understood that the problem wasn’t ‘it’-the problem was ‘me.’

With the right attitude, human beings can move mountains. With the wrong attitude, they can be crushed by the smallest grain of sand.

It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony in a court of law. Honesty is a vital part of having a good reputation.

There's nothing you can do about the past. But, you can do a great deal about your future. You don't have to be the same person you were yesterday. You can make changes in your life -- absolutely startling changes in a fairly short time. You can make changes you can't even conceive of now, if you give yourself a chance.