Time to improve is limited. The clock is always on and doesn't care if you don't feel like it. Someone else does and they're passing you by.

I'm not concerned with whether you got to the top. I want to know how far you climbed. That is where the real achievement is found.

Never underestimate the capacity of people to choose the easy way.

When making the problem go away is more important than solving the problem leadership begins to fail. The easy way vs. The character way.

The measure of your character and mental toughness is the space between what you are doing and what you could be doing

What does syadvad (speech that does not hurt the ego of any living being) speech say? Speak in such a way that 5 people benefit from it and that it does not interfere [conflict] with anyone.

Peter, you're not crazy, " William said. "Nobody's really crazy. That's just a word. Isn't it, Torey? Just a word. And nobody's a word.

You were too busy chasing unrequited love that you forgot you could be beautiful to someone.

There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.

Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens.

Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.

Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead.

English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action.

Youth passes like a dream.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.