“We can’t continuously be a society of well-wishers. We must take action to bring those wishes to fruition.”

“Do the best you can, with what you can, while you can, and success in inevitable.”

“Success is something you experience when you act accordingly. Success is not something you have, it’s something you do.”

“I dont write books so that you can be fascinated with me. I write them so you can be fascinated with YOU!”

“Never allow your desires to lead you away from God; allow nothing else to control you other than God and His Word. No matter what you see or pass through, don’t allow them to define you.”

“If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors’ prosperity and goodwill and, beyond that, in the good health of our worldly places, our homelands. If we were sincerely looking for a place of safety, for real security and success, then we would begin to turn to our communities – and not the communities simply of our human neighbors but also of the water, earth, and air, the plants and animals, all the creatures with whom our local life is shared.(pg. 59, “Racism and the Economy”)”

“The key to flow is to pursue an activity for its own sake, not for the rewards it brings.”

“I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.”

“Isana felt her throat tighten. “We failed.” Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana’s arm firmly.”We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference.”

“Once you understand how powerful you are within, you exponentially increase the power and potentiality of everything outside of you.”

“To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch ofundeserving people.”

“Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.”