When you give your ONE Thing your most emphatic Yes! and vigorously say No! to the rest, extraordinary results become possible.

Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.

Success is actually a short race-a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.

Taking complete ownership of your outcomes by holding no one but yourself responsible for them is the most powerful thing you can do to drive your success.

Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.

To ignite your life you must focus on ONE Thing long enough for it to catch fire.

Multitasking is a lie.

It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do , it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.

A life worth living might be measured in many ways, but the one way that stands above all others is living a life of no regrets.

Extraordinary results happen only when you give the best you have to become the best you can be at your most important work.

All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.

The purity of intention repels fear.

...The less I think of it the more certain I am.

I've worn a dress at my wedding. I've worn 6-inch Louboutins. I've got no fear and no shame.

We are optimists, until we are not.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

If you're an older sibling and you have a younger sibling who needs mentoring or is afraid of the dark, you develop nurturing and empathic skills that you wouldn't otherwise have.

Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.

There is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the smallest of ideas.

If we knew we were not alone in the universe it would have a very, very deep impact on our worldview, on our understanding of our place in the universe.

Here's one way I can know that I've forgotten the gospel of grace: when your sin bothers me more than my sin.