“When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.”

“You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.”

“You have to set the time frame for accomplishing your goal. If you don’t, it may take forever to reach your destination and you may get tired and change your focus. Consequently, to help you obtain and keep the sense of urgency that will help you stay focused, you have to set a deadline by which the goal has to be achieved.”

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.”

“When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails”

“How do you change what you believe when your experience has convinced you othervise? By creating a new experience. The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens. By the natural law of cause and effect, that new response will create new results, which you will then experience as a new reality. To reach the goal of happiness, act as though the following statement is already true: Everything that happens to me is the best thing that can happen to me.”