“Expect the unexpected. Focus on what you can control and acknowledge what’s out of your control.”

Don’t censor your dreams or vision with practicalities and probabilities.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

I think when you have big dreams you attract other big dreamers.

There are essentially two things that will make you wise — the books you read and the people you meet.

Of course motivation is not permanent. But then neither is bathing, but it is something you should do on a regular basis.

Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.

Successful people have successful habits Unsuccessful People Don’t!

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

If it ain’t fun don’t do it.

If you are going to be a winner, you have to acknowledge the truth—it is you who took the actions, thought the thoughts, created the feelings, and made the choices that got you to where you now are. It was you!

Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.

I’ve always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being.

What is the why behind everything you do?

You don’t want to get to the top of the ladder only to find out you had it leaning up against the wrong wall.

Dogs are not our whole lives, but they make our lives whole.

My shoulder’s not where I want it to be, but I’m doing a good job of monitoring it.

To each his own, but my process of preparation is based on conditions, not opposition.

Is globalization about ‘the eradication of world poverty,’ or is it a mutant variety of colonialism, remote controlled and digitally operated?

But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn’t freedom. It’s not control that’s lacking when one feels ‘free’, but the objectionable control of force.

The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior – verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations.

Cut throats, gun smoke, dope, and hoes, is what controls niggas souls.

When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.

When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.