Influence is the single most important skill you can master in your lifetime.

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can't have it.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

It's pretty simple - The Action you take will determine the results you Achieve.

Nothing can drag you down if you're not holding on to it.

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

Its not about the goal. Its about growing to become the person that can accomplish that goal.

I do not want you to live in the dream world because time erratically passes away in that world. Come to reality and begin to act now.

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

I am kinda lost, don't know who I am, what am doing, and why I am in it. Everything around me is more like a weird dream. I wish I could wake up. Before the dream finishes me.

They may not deserve forgiveness but I do.

Each day is a new life. Seize it. Live it.

A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.

Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!

I think that you have to restrain yourself from googling your name and have other hobbies and desires and wants. You do a million things. You go to school, you write, you read, you blog.

Sometimes love needs a rest from caring, and so bears for an intolerable few hours the guilt of not caring.

If we don't cut carbon's money pipeline, we will pay for their gasoline with floods, droughts, fires, super storms, drowned cities, mass extinctions, wars, and collapsing civilizations.