Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

If people knew how hard worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

One day Alice came to fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. “Which road do I take?” she asked. His response was a question: “Where do you want to go?” “I don’t know,” Alice answered. “Then, “said the cat, “it doesn’t matter.”

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.

The way you habitually think will determine your destiny.

The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've go to work to gain.

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.

Keep your mind off the things you don’t want by keeping it on the things you do want.

Action expresses priorities.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

Never cross a man, not afraid to die.

The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I just want God’s will. And He’s allowed to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promise land . . . So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man.

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.