"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much."

"Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion."

"If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us."

"You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour."

"It is a quiet truth that kindness is the invisible thread that binds all kindred spirits together — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a humble truth that rise early, act with intent, and let your accomplishments speak with silent authority."

"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."

"It is a timeless truth that beauty in art is the harmony of spirit, intellect, and craft — an essential principle for the reflective life."