My first book was called, 'Mountain, Get Out of My Way,' where I did an autobiographical sketch, if you will, looking back at myself and looking back at things in my life, and juxtaposing them against things that are happening in other people's lives and trying to be motivational.

I realized I love motivating and I love empowering and I love inspiring people. I did that as an athlete for 18 years, and I am able to do that as a motivational speaker now as well as doing work on television.

Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

I come to win.

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Many are called but few get up.

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

You will never win if you never begin.

When one must, one can.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.