Each moment has the potential to be special and memorable.

The pursuit of common dreams only produces common results.

True freedom is the choice to create the desires one believes in.

The cost of freedom is being strong enough to find then implement your own desires.

In life you have the freedom to pursue whatever your heart desires.

The cost of freedom is being strong enough to find the implement your own desires.

Harnessing change is the most valuable tool available for creating the reality that you clearly desire.

Don't make changes to suit others, stay true to yourself.

How to get back on the right track can be quite simple if you know what you want.

Life is a mind game of creation.

The mind is an empire unto itself.

[On one of his comrades depicted in the book:]"Sasha was my friend … Like me, he was 19. But he didn't come home. He was killed 12 hours after this photo was taken.

Create the job, we wish to have.

Our success and happiness depends not on simply knowing where we stand, but in where we are wanting to go.

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end.

The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.

A [New Yorker ] is what it has always been. It combines those who pursue the truth with those who pursue the rewards of orthodoxy and those who pursue what is comfortable to the rich.

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.

A man with courage has every blessing.

It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.