Don’t confuse the complex with the difficult. Most situations are simple – many are just emotionally difficult to act upon.

People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.

A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.

Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.

Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

It is possible to become world-class, enter the top 5% of performers in the world, in almost any subject within 6-12 months, or even 6-12 weeks.

People don’t want to be millionaires — they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy.

Simple works, complex fails.

One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10, 000 hours to become world-class at.

Only solitude means never having to say you’re sorry.

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody anywhere anytime.

I think it's important to remember that writing is a gift and our stories are gifts to ourselves and to the world and sometimes giving isn't always the easiest thing to do but it comes back.

The fact is that every atom that we're made of is part of that first explosion of a nuclear star billions of years ago. We're connected to the entire universe.

Be the trouble you want to see in the world.

One of my life philosophies is that you have a choice to make when you're doing something creative. You can be cheesy... or you can be lame.

For the past weeks I'd been reacting. That was no way to win. To win, you take the initiative. You instigate the action. You make the opponent react to you.

All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day be turned to account.

You never forget your first love.