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

In the end, money should serve something greater than just money. It should serve you, your family, the people you want to touch.

Don’t surround yourself with people who just affirm you. Surround yourself with people who challenge you.

Everybody’s got a past. The past does not equal the future unless you live there.

Your story is where you take it to, not where you start.

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

The New Year is truly a blessed time because it unifies us, All in celebration of life!

I don’t worry about maintaining the quality of my life, because every day I work on improving it.

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

The past does not equal the future.

There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once unleashed can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.

If you want to change your life you have to raise your standards.

Repetition is the mother of skill.

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Activity without purpose is the drain of your life.

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.