Progress often masquerades as trouble.

If you believe in yourself you know you can do it again! And you are able to assume the requisite risks associated with another Quantum Leap!

Do whatever it takes.

Don’t fear your failures and focus on your continued application of QLA! Because FEAR is – False Expectations Appearing Real!

There is a massive difference between playing to win and playing not to lose! Which have you followed?

We must all remember life doesn't have to be fair for us to succeed if we take charge and become masters and creators of our own destiny!

The more you investigate, the less you have to invest.

Any problem solved will be replaced immediately by a larger more complicated one!

Don't under any circumstances, ever, second guess yourself.

Dream Big, Think Big, Be Big!

When you have high benchmarks and expectations, great things can happen! How high are yours?

Even when one thoughtfully and judiciously plans, more often than not, such plans are overcome by external events. Therefore, never underestimate how wrong you can be!

Deliberately place yourself in risky or uncomfortable situations.

If today was a test – how would you grade yourself, zero to one hundred? Ask yourself this question when you go to bed each and every day. Keep a monthly score. What is your monthly average – including weekends?

You must be laser-beam focused on success and take MASSIVE POSITIVE ACTION!

Do everything with Enthusiasm – (Greek “God within”).

Act as if you have no limits to your abilities.

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

If they didn't call you a tough guy, then what else would they call you? Something worse than that? I'm playing parts, and if they call you that, it's because I played the part right.

I'm happy to say I am a Harrison-Kreps-Keynesian.

Good leadership is to know when to go, and you only succeed as a good leader if you've transported someone else in and the company gets stronger. Then you've succeeded as leader.

You know, we have a fiscal train wreck before us. And unless we act, and act deliberately, we're not going to enable our kids to have what we have. It's plain and simple as that.

If you want to be with someone who is 15 or 20 years younger, that's fine, but I've found that if you haven't been knocked down a little bit, then you're probably not going to be hanging with me too much.

A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity. It didn't matter if her child were three, thirteen, or thirty.

The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.

I'm a one-woman guy. I think that if you can find someone you want to spend the rest of your life with, you should marry them instantly, and try to stay married.

I believe that conservative solutions can help families of every race, every economic background, and every town in Oklahoma.

I am starting to look like and perform like the Lou that I used to be.

When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.

We are different people - you get a different take on the band whoever you speak to. Somehow, at the end of it, it goes through the filtering process and out comes the Radiohead thing.

We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.

I would be a terrible director, I could never write anything. One of my great strengths is that I know all of my weaknesses.

It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.

Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver.

I'm a great believer in possibilities.

It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is wrong. If it's our own suffering, we try to hide it or isolate ourselves. If others are suffering, we're taught to put them away somewhere so we don't have to see it.

Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you.

Delusions are often functional. A mothers opinions about her childrens beauty intelligence goodness et cetera ad nauseam keep her from drowning them at birth.

I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.

I wish politicians would put the environment at the centre of every agenda.