In South Africa, they dig for diamonds. Tons of earth are moved to find a little pebble not as large as a little fingernail. The miners are looking for the diamonds, not the dirt. They are willing to lift all the dirt in order to find the jewels. In daily life, people forget this principle and become pessimists because there is more dirt than diamonds. When trouble comes, don’t be frightened by the negatives. Look for the positives and dig them out. They are so valuable it doesn't matter if you have to handle tons of dirt.

The degree of complications and unhappiness in a person's life corresponds to the degree to which he dwells on the way he thinks the world ought to be rather than the way it really is. and being grateful it isn't worse, while trying to make it better.

I do firmly believe that universal forces are at work that pull us inexorably toward the deserving results of our actions.

The results you produce in life are inversely proportional to the degree to which you are intimidated.

Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success.

A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability.

With a written agreement you have a prayer; with a verbal agreement you have nothing but air.