"Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing."

"People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves."

"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."

"The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed."

"Frankly, the reason I joined MENSA is because I was dating a guy at the time who spoke five languages and could solve a Rubik's Cube literally with his eyes closed because it's just an algorithm."

"There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way."

"I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist."

"Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober."