What a person thinks is determined by how a person thinks. This is true whether the conclusion at which a person arrives is accurate, safe, and profitable — or stupid and vicious.

My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind

Remember, whatever you focus upon, increases . . . . When you focus on the things you need , you'll find those needs increasing. If you concentrate your thoughts on what you don't have, you will soon be concentrating on other things that you had forgotten you don't have--and feel worse! If you set your mind on loss, you are more likely to lose. But a grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.

With this approach, every message should have one central idea, application, insight, or principle that serves as the glue to hold the other parts together.

What gets our attention determines our direction and, ultimately, our destination. Or if you would prefer the short version: attention determines direction.

There's never any cumulative value to all the things we do instead of the things we know are truly important.

Your past experience must be a grid through which you evaluate every decision. Chances are, there are places you have no business visiting because of your history—places that would have no impact on the average person, but the average person doesn't share your experience with those environments.

Narrow the Focus. By that I mean you shouldn't try to do everything; you should do a few things well.

Your beliefs shape your attitudes!

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.