Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do.

Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?

We become what we repeatedly do.

A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor.

One of the few things that can't be recycled is wasted time.

Strong minds talk about ideas; weak minds talk about people.

Life is a mission, not a career. A career is a profession, a mission is a cause. A career asks, What's in it for me? A mission asks, How can I make a difference?

We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.

Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.

Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation.

Don't wait until people are dead to give them flowers.

Summers end to soon just as childhood ends before we apprehend the effervescent of our youth.

Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again, you must learn to trust again.

I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.

Looking back we see with great clarity, and what once appeared as difficulties now reveal themselves as blessings.

Good question to ask yourself: How would the person I would like to be do what I'm about to do?

What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.

...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.

As a dancer, I out-Fred the nimblest Astaire.

The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.

All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.