"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much."
"For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward."
"The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become."
"The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy."
"The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch."
"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present."
"If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."
"You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour."
"A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better."
"The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path."
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."
"The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself."
"There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important."
"Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me."
"A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images."
"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention."
"Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion."
"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."
"The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get."
"Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness."
"To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?"
"The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing."
"Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals."
"It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go."
"Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."
