You can never get enough of what you don't want.

Irving Wallace wrote a bestselling novel, The Man, in the 1960s about a black man becoming president of the United States. We thought that such a possibility was thousands of years in the future. Some people may still have some difficulty with the idea, but that's a major cultural meme shift.

After a while, we start really believing these things are true. People who have had self-defeating behaviors for a long time, such as people who have been overweight since they were children or people with longtime addictions, actually believe there is no other alternative.

The best way to win is to not need to.

Everything that you want to create is already there. Your job is to connect yourself to it.

The purpose of prayer is not to influence God to grant you special favors, but rather to remind yourself that you are always connected to God.

Failing is a judgment that we humans place on a given action. Rather than judgment, substitute this attitude: You cannot fail, you can only produce results.