Success is a label that the world confers on you, but mastery is an ever-onward 'almost.'

We thrive not when we've done it all, but when we still have more to do.

Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving.

To reach an audacious goal, we sometimes benefit from having it lie just beyond our grasp.

Pain is not a punishment. And pleasure is not a reward. You could argue that failure is not punishment and Success is not reward. They're just failure and success. You can choose how you respond.

Play allows us to maintain curiosity while learning.

Mastery is in constantly wanting to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.

Coming close to what you thought you wanted can help you attain what you never dreamed you could.

The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost.

Completion is a goal, but we hope it is never the end.

I don't seem able to get it straight in my mind....

At some point we must stop editing everyone else' story and start writing our own.

Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.

Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.

I'm the only kid in the world who doesn't want an eighth Harry Potter book.

The great duties of life are written with a sunbeam.

I went to a lecture of [Arthur Koestler ] once, I never met him.

The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter.

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.