You alone are responsible for what you do, don’t do, or how you respond to what’s done to you.

Old habits eat good intentions for lunch. Change your habits so you can change your outcomes.

DNA has nothing to do with success. Turn your genes into overalls and get to work.

A daily routine built on good habits and disciplines separates the most successful among us from everyone else. The routine is exceptionally powerful.

Commitment is doing the thing you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in has left you.

The activities you are most afraid of are the activities that can cause a breakthrough in your success. Step into them.

Daily Mojo: Your main competitors are not others in your industry. Your main competitors are distractions. Don't let them beat you - stay focused

Broke people talk about people and problems. Rich people talk about ideas and goals. Your conversation chooses your destiny.

The highest achievers in the world have all succeeded because they mapped out their visions

If you truly want to be successful, spend less time following the lives of other people and more time leading your own.

Consistency is the key to achieving and maintaining momentum.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.

Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!

I enjoyed retirement the right way linguine con vongole, red wine and plenty of truffle cheese.

The more perfect one becomes, the less he is inclined to speak of the imperfections of others.

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days).

I just want to cuddle with my Lion and give him all the love nobody in the world has given him but me.

I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

Politicians are fond of criticizing others.

It's harder for men to imagine themselves as the girl in the movies than it is for me to imagine myself as Daniel Craig bringing down the building.