From when I was a kid I wanted to write. It was so important to me that I was writing my own material.
Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.
Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
Everything in God's store is on the bottom shelf. . . you have to get on your knees to get it.
Control your thoughts and you control your circumstance.
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. [But you must know enough to realise this, lest you focus more on the defeat than finding the lesson you paid for with the defeat. With every defeat and mistake, you have the logical right to get excited about the future when you will understand and be able to apply the lessons and thereby turn defeat and temporary failure into victory and permanent success. ]
You should never even ask if a campaign is winnable, because the question is not answerable. No-one can predict the course of the future. Time and time again I have seen completely unforeseeable shifts in the tide of events that result in campaign victory.
The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.
But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.
Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?