My definition of financial freedom is simple: it is the ability to live the lifestyle you desire without having to work or rely on anyone else for money.

Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world.

If you want to move to a new level in your life, you must break through your comfort zone and practice doing things that are not comfortable.

If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!

If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.

Rich people play the money game to win. Poor people play the money game to not lose.

Where attention goes, energy flows and results show.

In my experience, getting rich takes focus, courage, knowledge, expertise, 100 percent of your effort, a never-give-up attitude and of course a rich mind-set.

From now on, I want you to practice reframing other people's negativity as a reminder of how not to be.

Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world.

Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don't let these feelings stop them.

We are what we are, Nial, neither as good or as evil as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?

At the end of the day, so many things that we hold so much value with, it just doesn't even mean anything. I really try to stay focused on being really positive.

You can quit anything on a Thursday.

A good run adds a little bounce to my step. I get a certain amount of self-esteem from it.

The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.

We are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our various preconceptions.

As an actor playing a character, I can't come in with my judgement, or else I can't play it honestly. My judgement has to be reserved for later.

He pulls me over the railing and against his chest, gathering me into his arms, easing an arm under my knees. I press my face into his shoulder, and there is a sudden, hollow silence.