“The more comfort becomes your priority, the more contracted you become with fear.”

If you don’t have the money management skills yet, using a debit card will ensure you don’t overspend and rack up debt on a credit card.

Rich people think BIG. Poor people think small.

Remember, your motto is, if they can do it, I can do it!

In my experience, getting rich takes focus, courage, knowledge, expertise, 100 percent of your effort, a never-give-up attitude and of course a rich mind-set.

Most of all, having money allows you not to have to spend your energy worrying about not having money.

The only way to earn what you’re really worth is to get paid based on your results.

Either you’re a person who will be stopped, or you are a person who won’t be stopped. You choose.

Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don’t let these feelings stop them.

If a hundred-foot oak tree had the mind of a human, it would only grow to be ten feet tall!

Everything happens for a reason and that reason is there to assist me.

My definition of financial freedom is simple: it is the ability to live the lifestyle you desire without having to work or rely on anyone else for money.

If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.

Happiness doesn’t come from living a lukewarm life, always wondering what could have been. Happiness comes as a result of being in our natural state of growth and living up to our fullest potential.

Money brings freedom-freedom to buy what you want , and freedom to do what you want with your time. Money allows you to enjoy the finer things in life as well as giving you the opportunity to help others have the necessities in life.

We need to practice acting in spite of fear, in spite of doubt, in spite of worry, in spite of uncertainty, in spite of inconvenience, in spite of discomfort, and even to practice acting when we’re not in the mood to act.

“No thought lives in your head rent-free.” Each thought you have will either be an investment or a cost.

It’s always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.

I can’t do this because I can’t…I can’t be the man I want to be with you. And that means that this – this just becomes…another reminder of what I am not.

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.

Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

Writing in African languages became a topic of discussion in conferences, in schools, in classrooms; the issue is always being raised – so it’s no longer “in the closet,” as it were. It’s part of the discussion going on about the future of African literature.

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.