Use all the willpower at your disposal to make yourself happy. Construct the right stories about yourself - and believe them!

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.

If we did realize the difference between the vital few and the trivial many in all aspects of our lives, and if we did something about it, we could multiply anything that we valued.

80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. A few things are important; most are not.

The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied.

Hard work leads to low returns. Insight and doing what we want lead to high returns.

To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.

The 80/20 principle - that 80 percent of result flow from just 20 per cent of the causes - is the one true principle of highly effective people.

What could you achieve that would make you proud, that no one else could do with the same ease?

It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways.

Celebrate exceptional productivity, rather than raise average efforts.

There's a lesson here, and that is I have to find happiness inside myself before I try to partner again.

I spend my nights thinking the worstAnd telling myself that everything's going to work outI keep kicking myself in the mouthOpening up every cut that should be a scar by now

The average American is not concerned with his society. He talks about it, but you know if one speaks of being concerned, I mean something about which one loses one's sleep, sometimes.

Humans are made from nuclear ash of dead stars

Sowing and reaping is a spiritual law...Sow generously and you will reap generously.

Was it a sign of Creeping Decrepitude?

The music speaks for itself!

It is a privilege for me to serve the NFL. It is the only place I have ever wanted to work.

The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.

New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in.