Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.'

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

You can observe a lot just by watching.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

Listen if you want to be heard