Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.

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

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

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.

She shook off the self-recrimination. What-ifs and could-have-beens were not the way to move forward. She knew that from experience.

Don’t let any tragic event or any people pull you away from the path of peace. Be strong and attract others to your path toward peace.

A meaningful life is the life full of meaningful relationships. Create yours.

I am a gym rat who loves to work out, particularly running, Zumba, yoga, cycling, and kickboxing.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

The only cause of happiness is love. The only cause of suffering is self grasping.

I don't understand what I do, I just know that it's great.

I do not believe that since man was in the habit of living on this planet anyone has ever lived possessed of the impudence of Jay Gould.

Of course, since we don't see the Indian as a living figure - having turned the Indian into a kind of mascot for the ecology movement, a symbol of prehistory - we can't see the Indian among us.

First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.