Successful people fail their way to the top!

It's never too late to start. It's always too late to wait.

You plant, then you cultivate, and finally you harvest. Plant, cultivate, harvest. In today's world, everyone wants to go directly from plant to harvest.

Successful people form habits that feed their success, instead of habits that feed their failure.

There are only two possibilities. You are either going for your dreams or giving up your dreams. Stretching for what you could be or settling for what you are.

A positive philosophy turns into a positive attitude, which turns into positive actions, which turns into positive results, which turns into a positive lifestyle. A positive life.

Successful people do the things that unsuccessful people won't do.

How you feed your mind is every bit as critical to your happiness as how you feed your body.

Showing up is essential. Showing up consistently is powerful. Showing up consistently with a positive outlook is even more powerful.

Being productive and being busy are not necessarily the same thing. Doing things won’t create your success; doing the right things will.

For things to change, you've got to change. For things to get better, you've got to get better.

The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.

Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."

If he invited you out, he's got to pay.

It's hard to send your baby off on a plane without you, though that's less reasonable, because sending him off in a car is statistically a bigger risk.

An entire composition written in jazz could not live.

I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.

I needed to understand this random bad bit of luck as part of a bigger design. Otherwise I was suffering meaninglessly. This made the suffering a lot worse.

Sometimes it's things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you're hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you're in a hurry, but usually it's people.

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

To each person, their own way of death - with dignity.