A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional.

The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Common sense is not always common practice.

We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.

The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others or by many of the circumstances and environmental influences that limit other people.

We're constantly making choices about the way we spend our time. The issue is not between the good and the bad, but between the good and the best. So often, the enemy of the best is the good.