 Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent. |
| Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. |
| Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. |
| Labor gives birth to ideas. |
| Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people. |
| Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. |
| Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness. |
| Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through. |
| 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. |
| Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. |
| Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors. |
| Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you. |
| Make measurable progress in reasonable time. |
| Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book. |
| We get paid for bringing value to the market place. |
| 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. |
| Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become. |
| If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around. |
| 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. |
| Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. |
