Know that success and inner peace are your birthright, that you are a child of God and as such that you're entitled to a life filled with joy, love and happiness.

When I go to a music concert, I don't say, "My purpose is to get to the end and enjoy the finale." If that were the purpose, everybody would write finales and nothing more. The purpose of the concert is to enjoy each note as you go along.

Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you.

I did have a lot of lack, but I never experienced it. I grew up in the east side of Detroit, in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. Even growing up in an orphanage, I never woke up saying, "I'm an orphan again today, isn't this terrible? Poor me."

The only antidote to anger is to eliminate the internal sentence: "If only you were more like me."

The biggest questions that always have perplexed me are "Where do I come from?" and "Where am I going?"

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.