Once you figure out what you want in life—expect nothing less.

Extend your "best before" date by living a youthful life.

Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck.

No one can take the shot for you.

When the awareness of what is achievable brushes your life, your journey has begun.

It's sometimes easier to help others rather than helping yourself. The trick is to listen to your "self" as a friend. This may be the simplest change you ever make in life, with the biggest impact.

Upon achieving a lifelong dream, I thought, this is the way to live your life -- in the moment, and to the fullest.

When healthy competition prevails -- you come out to play and you play to win.

Needs cause motivation. Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self-actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need in our lives.

The decide word is so powerful. It's amazing what you can do once you decide to do it.

Awareness makes us emotionally brilliant.

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.

I honestly in a lot of ways don't want to sing about my real life, because that's private.

When you kill time, you kill your opportunities for success.

I love a reciprocal tax. Nobody can fight it, it's fair and it's something that we are working on very strongly.

We cannot give Russia veto over deployment of forces on NATO territory. But we have to understand their particular sensitivities, and, therefore, there should be a dialogue on these issues.

This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their position.

London ... remains a man's city where New York is chiefly a woman's. London has whole streets that cater to men's wants. It has its great solid phalanx of fortress clubs.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

If a man, cautious, hides his limp, Somebody has to limp it! Things do it; the surroundings limp. House walls get scars, the car breaks down; matter, in drudgery, takes it up.