“Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.”

Be a student, not a follower. Take interest in what someone says, then debate it, ponder it, and consider it from all angles.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

Poor people spend their money and save what’s left, rich people save their money and spend what’s left.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Don’t set your goals too low. If you don’t need much, you won’t become much.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

When the why gets stronger, the how gets easier.

You’ve got to believe in the possibilities. You’ve got to believe that tomorrow can be better than today. And here’s the big one. Believe in yourself.

How long should you try? Until.

The major key to your better future is you.

Learn to express, not impress.

We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation.

For every disciplined effort, there is a multiple reward.

Learn how to say no. Don’t let your mouth overload your back.

Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.

Don’t wish it was easier wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom.

Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.

Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.

If a builder builds a house and the house falls and kills some one in the house the owners may kill the builder.

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else – building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.

If you don’t have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.

If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.

You can build a lifestyle for yourself that doesn’t need to be fueled by booze and drugs to get things done.

Religion, it stops people from thinking because they think all the answers are in that one book; it impedes progress; it justifies crazy people. Flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative.