Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.

The story that you tell yourself is exactly what holds you back from being successful.

When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.

No matter what happened to you in your past, you are not your past, you are the resources and the capabilities you glean from it. And that is the basis for all change.

Dream stompers are people who want to stomp on your hopes and dreams. Lose their phone numbers

Don't follow the path. Blaze the trail.

Whether you say, 'I can' or 'I can't,' you're right either way.

Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.

If you give people a good enough 'why', they will always figure out the 'how'.

Winners use words that say 'must' and 'will'.

In the end, we must remember that no one can become what they need to be by remaining where the are. Until there is motion nothing can change.

...it begins with isolation - demons always inhabit desolate places...

A man who tosses worms in the river isn’t 't necessarily a friend of the fish. All the fish who take him for a friend, who think the worm’s got no hook in it, usually end up in the frying pan.

I wondered if that was what I was doing myself – caring so much about something that was so long gone that I was only propping it up.

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?

Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

Love who and what you are and what you do.

I spent a lot of time trying to layer upon layer upon layer as I wrote. I think that's often the fear of a writer, that little nuances won't get picked up.

Thus have you the way of making Conserves, the way of keeping of them is in Earthen pots.