Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.

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.

All the little devils are proud of their hell

Everyone has the power to make a difference, to themselves and others, and to our world.

Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

I just like the comic book sensibility. If I can turn them into films and TV series, that's just icing on the cake.

We all look the same with our helmets on.

Every time you go the way the audience expects, they'll think you're original. People laugh with pleasure at the obvious.

Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; Rush over it like a river reeds.

The world is full of Kings and Queens, Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.

This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.