Real wisdom is simple. Living life rightly does not have to be a complicated challenge.

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.

Direction determines destination.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Whether you stay six weeks, six months or six years, always leave it better than you found it.

Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge.

Success is not something you pursue. What you pursue will elude you; it can be like trying to chase butterflies. Success is something you attract by the person you become.

Some people you can afford to spend a few minutes with, but not a few hours.

Life is accumulative -- Either our errors accumulate to what we don't get, or our wise decisions accumulate into what we do get.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.'

Happiness doesn't come from big pieces of great success, but from small advantages hammered out day by day.

Goals: There is no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There is no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There is no telling what will happen when you act upon them.

Life responds to deserve and not to need.

Each person entering our world brings either a contribution or destruction.

It's best to start the discipline of generosity when the amounts are small. It's easy to give ten cents out of a dollar; it's a little harder to give a hundred thousand out of a million.

Don't look for things to be easier, look for you to be better.

Emotions are the fuel and the mind is the pilot which together propel the ship of civilized progress.

Resolve says, 'I will.' The man says, 'I will climb this mountain. They told me it is too high, too far, too steep, too rocky, and too difficult. But it's my mountain. I will climb it. You will soon see me waving from the top or dead on the side from trying.'

Financial independence is the ability to live from the income of your own personal resources.