Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.

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.

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.

Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.

Love as if you are living just to love.

You more than anyone else dederve to be loved and happy. Do not remain in any relationship that robs you of those two things.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.

I'm just a geeky, goofy person.

A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves in daily life very close to the animal plane.

Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?

Your experiences in the causal dimensions will give you knowledge of time, space, dimensionality and what lies beyond all these things.

The whole of mankind is one and only one, one race, one class and one society.

In a story, the craftsmanship is fully exposed. A novel is like charity; it covers a multitude of faults.