“Start reading, and especially read the kinds of books that will help you unleash your inner potential.”

Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity.

When you work, work. When you play, play. Don’t mix the two.

Don’t shortchange yourself when it comes to investing in your own better future.

The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Good service leads to multiple sales. If you take good care of your customers, they will open doors you could never open by yourself.

It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.

I used to blame everything outside of me for my lack of progress until I found that my problem was inside.

Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow.

Never begrudge the money you spend on your own education.

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

The problem with waiting until tomorrow is that when it finally arrives, it is called today.

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Inherent to socialism is the absence of choice. If I want to choose my own pretzels or books or iphones, they prevent me – they fine me, or imprison me. And those systems, not infrequently have historically, have developed into systems where there are programs.

The fashion magazines are suggesting that women wear clothes that are ‘age appropriate.’ For me that would be a shroud.

Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.

When the Bible speaks, God speaks.

Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.

The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.

We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day.