Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.

Life asked you to make measurable progress in reasonable time. That's why they make those fourth grade chairs so small -- so you won't fit in them at age twenty-five.

Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot.

The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.