You are not the mistakes of your past, but the resources and capabilities that you have gleaned from your past.

Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.

The story that you tell yourself is exactly what holds you back from being successful.

When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.

No matter what happened to you in your past, you are not your past, you are the resources and the capabilities you glean from it. And that is the basis for all change.

Dream stompers are people who want to stomp on your hopes and dreams. Lose their phone numbers

Don't follow the path. Blaze the trail.

Whether you say, 'I can' or 'I can't,' you're right either way.

Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.

If you give people a good enough 'why', they will always figure out the 'how'.

You are young still. Naturally, one tries this, that and the other, but what one eventually settles down into is the life one prefers.

With social media, you have the chance to be the Lutherans that Luther imagined.

I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer.

What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?"

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.

I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.

The costs of government are bound to be much higher than those of the free market. . .The State cannot calculate well and therefore cannot gauge its costs accurately.

Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.

Whatever is goode in its kinde ought to be preserv'd in respect for antiquity, as well as our present advantage, for destruction can be profitable to none but such as live by it.

Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent.