“Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.”

Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be – whether they will admit that or not.

If a person will spend one hour a day on the same subject for five years, that person will be an expert on that subject.

The person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas.

Security isn’t what the wise person looks for – it’s opportunity.

Shooting for the top will bring out the best that’s in you.

Watch what everyone else does–do the opposite. The majority is always wrong.

Strange and marvelous things will happen with constant regularity as you alter your life and begin living in harmony with the laws of the universe.

What happens inside always appears outside.

Goals reflect your choice of destination.

That’s the secret: be interesting. If you can’t be interesting, shut up. There’s nothing wrong with silence.

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Each of us creates his or her own life largely by our attitude.

Pray, and let God worry.

Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.

I can trust my friends… these people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.

I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.

If you are going to wait for someone to encourage you to do something, you just better give up.

I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

Losing doesn’t make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight that much harder.