“Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.”

The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there.

I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Living life in style also means living a life of balance.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

The more you know the less you need to say.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

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 is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

In Germany, an effort one thousandth the scale of the American was applied to the problem of producing atomic energy that would drive engines.

If you listen to that song and knew anything about me, you’d say, “Oh yeah, he wrote that about his daughter,” but I try not to write them that they are so specific that they wouldn’t apply to anybody that has a child.

Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.

Basically what’s happening is I’m pleading guilty to possessing and having plants and not guilty to the charges of supply.

To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.

Instructions are supposed to translate the law into lay terms that the jury can apply to the facts as they determine them.