The truth is that judgment and fear will never stop, but they don't actually do anything.

Success works as a cycle - growth and contraction, balancing and unbalancing - all while you're encountering hurdles that get higher and higher over time.

You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.

You can change the world again, instead of protecting yourself from it.

Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn't what's important - facing it is.

What you're missing is that the path itself changes you.

The ability to withstand the flinch comes with the knowledge that the future will be better than the past.

So if you see no one like you, no one who agrees, don't worry. There are actually hundreds of people like you, and they're waiting for a leader. That person is you.

You can't make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence.

No one has a problem with the first mile of a journey. Even an infant could do fine for a while. But it isn't the start that matters. It's the finish line.

Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be.

When we mother well, we teach our children to embrace the moral obligations that build solid relationships, healthy marriages, and secure families.

They inched through dense, heart-stopping darkness. In the distance was what looked like a bright white door cut out of a black wall. Sunni tiptoed towards it, puzzled by its brilliance.

God knows we all have to at least try to justify our behavior so we don't feel too guilty about it later.

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the educational convention.

[Behavioral tracking] is an area today that has very few regulations and even fewer rules.

The French would eat anything that couldn't outrun them.

You'd be surprised how much free time I have.

It's just a crime that people don't take the time and make the effort to have a conversation if it's bothering them that much.

It's amazing what these superhero movies have become.