If you believe you can change - if you make it a habit - the change becomes real.

Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits.

If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they'll prove you right

Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.

The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.

Champions don’t do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the orther team to react. They follow the habits they’ve learned.

This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.

The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.

Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.

The problem is that your brain can't tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it's always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.

Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.

Don't wait for the right moment to start, start and make each moment right.

Gods are fragile beings. They depend on the hospitality of those who believe in them

If you align your priorities in such a way that puts people first, everything begins to make more sense.

Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.

In my former life I was in insider, as much as anybody else. And I knew what it's like, and I still know what it's like to be an insider. It's not bad.

Don't think of us as separate beings. Imagine that we are one body and it's been split into millions. When we sit in the mediation hall - that is unity

I believe that the war against terrorism and the war against poverty in these times of turmoil go together. So you - when you fight one, you have to fight the other.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.