What studies say the number one best way to start an exercise habit is to give yourself a reward that you genuinely enjoy.

Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits.

If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they'll prove you right

If you believe you can change - if you make it a habit - the change becomes real.

Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.

The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.

Champions don’t do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the orther team to react. They follow the habits they’ve learned.

This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.

The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.

Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.

The problem is that your brain can't tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it's always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.

The realization was becoming clearer: How could she expect others to trust her with the intricacies of their lives if she was not not willing to reveal hers?

Empowerment is being aware that there is no one to blame for my choices and actions

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.

I'm always trying to look for how I can find human stories that aren't just dramas.

Life is more a matter of choosing than knowing. He could never know the eventual destination of his path, but he could always choose in which direction to take each step.

And it feels like, finally.

I don't think I had a Catherine Bach poster, but I know a lot of my friends desecrated those, big time.

There is no fair wind for one who knows not whither he is bound.

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.