“Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.”

Life is nothing but a mirror of your consistent thoughts.

When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.

The quality of your life is the quality of where you live emotionally.

A relationship is a place we go to give, not a place we go to get.

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration.

The quickest way out of fear is to get outside of yourself and to help someone else in need.

Be the person you wish to become – today. Talk like them, walk like them, breathe like them! Be them now!

Lack of emotion causes lack of progress and lack of motivation.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.

Nothing can drag you down if you’re not holding on to it.

Contribution is the key to ultimate fulfillment!

People who say, “I don’t know what to do,” usually aren’t inspired enough to make it happen.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Successful people spend 10% of their time focused on the problems and 90% of the rest, focused on the solution.

I love research – that’s all the fun, especially in the field. To write, however, is to suffer, and my pieces usually come in thousands of words over the assigned length. That’s a serious flaw in my writing process – shaping and disciplining the footlockers of material one has so happily gathered.

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.

It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on the individual alone. Irrespective of any external regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.

Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame.

To bribe a farmer not to plant 38 acres with corn … seven weeks of salary for a Customs man assigned to save us from the terror of high-quality, low priced foreign TV sets, or the subsidy on 6,000 bushels of wheat to prop up the Soviet regime.

Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.

I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.