“You can get anywhere if you simply go one step at a time.”

Gratitude is really, really attractive. A child who is genuinely grateful makes you want to do anything for her, and that is true of adults as well.

The average millionaire can’t tell you who got thrown off the island last night.

Goals are visions and dreams with work clothes on.

Where you are today is the sum of every choice you’ve ever made. If you don’t like where you are, start making different choices!

The world will try to tell you that you need stuff to be somebody. Don’t listen.

When you create a basic budget and stick to it, it will suddenly seem like you have more money.

You’ve got to tell your money what to do or it will leave.

If you help enough people, you don’t have to worry about money.

Work-get paid; don’t work-don’t get paid. Everybody is on commission.

Making mistakes and learning from them is crucial to winning.

We live in a culture full of hares; but the tortoise always wins.

Fear is the enemy of hope.

Contentment may be the most powerful Financial Principle. You can give more, avoid debt, and live better.

Feeling lost? Take a dream and convert it into small goals, then start taking the steps to hit those goals.

Work is doing it. Discipline is doing it every day. Diligence is doing it well every day.

Money… is like a beautiful thoroughbred horse – very powerful & always in action, but unless this horse is trained when very young, it will be an out-of-control & dangerous animal when it grows to maturity.

Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.

Quite simply, it is true that I can be a pig! It is not a lie to say that. Sometimes, I feel that I am in the right even when I am wrong.

You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done – but simply because you are.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

I simply taught, preached, wrote God’s Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.

One of the reasons we stay so alone in our lives is because we’re ashamed to talk about the hard stuff. It’s as simple as that. We’re all in pain in different ways, and we don’t get the help we need because we’re too ashamed to talk about the pain.

My message is simple: take control of your life.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.