We would all benefit by shifting our focus from seeing pain as bad to seeing pain as motivation to change.

One major cost of self-deception is that we use painful life experiences to justify being non-ideal versions of ourselves.

The truth is that our self-deceptive lies range from seemingly tiny untruths to massive life-altering falsehoods about reality.

I cannot overemphasize the impact our childhood has on our ability to be honest because we live out what we learned as children in our adult relationships.

Living through difficult life circumstances in not an excuse for passing trauma onto someone else.

When you are not aware that you are bringing old learning to your current relationships, you will want to lie about where it is coming from.

We lie to reflect the aspirational goals that we unconsciously know we will not uphold.

Perhaps the most tragic way that self-deception harms us is that we start believing our lies and we teach them to others.

In fact, lying to ourselves may be the most dangerous thing in the world because we live our truth whether we are honest about it or not.

It is actually a good survival strategy to manipulate twist, and reorganize the truth in a way that is more consistent with what we can psychologically tolerate.

At the most basic level, self-deception is fooling ourselves into believing something that is false -- or -- not believing something that is true.

The world will never know you because you were not bold and did not take a risk

Maybe it’s just in America, but it seems that if you’re passionate about something, it freaks people out. You’re considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.

The lesson I learned is that when you give someone authority, you must be conscious you are doing so and continue to ask yourself whether it is in your best interests.

A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.

A Christian man should so shine in his life, that a person could not live with him a week without knowing the gospel.

There are jobs, money and survival in renewable energy. Our only safe future is sun power

Without the Internet I would have no fans and I wouldn't be in this business. I owe everything to the Internet and my fans.

I know exaggerators of both kinds: people whose lies are only picturesque adjectives, and people whose picturesque adjectives are only lies.

Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.