...and while ambition sleeps inside of me I content myself with memories of glitter and despair.

Relish the challenge of overcoming difficulties that would crush ordinary men...learn to suffer.

Sometimes you must sacrifice yourself on the altar of effort to be reminded of what and who you could become if you applied yourself.

One hour three times per week in the gym is no counterbalance to all of the other behavior in those other 165 hours

Punish the body to perfect the soul.

It doesn't have to be fun to be fun.

I don't actually care what I climb, only how it affects me. Which means the summit doesn't matter as much as the emotional process.

So go ahead, break stuff. Break yourself on the once-hard edges of yourself. And recycle the debris into the foundation of your future.

Everything costs something everyone pays

Some of us wake up. Others roll over.

Inconsistency, incompetence, and lies are all cut short by the ground. It will stop you if you can't stop yourself.

I may be going nowhere, but what a ride.

As life is a breath, savoring is a held exhale, a placeholder for joy.

Childbirth, as a strictly physical phenomenon, is comparable to driving a United Parcel truck through an inner tube.

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.

Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!

Disinformation is most effective in a very narrow context.

I’m like a psychologist, I can discover the panther inside a woman and then, boosh! I can give her power!

To the questioning glance of love, as it flashes out and then conceals itself, speech has no reply; the smile, the kiss, the sigh answer.

I was always told that if people don't want a picture with you, or they don't want an autograph from you, that doesn't mean you're not doing anything good.

Social media companies must combine their mastery of the latest in real-time, location based or augmented reality technologies in the service of clear and consistent storytelling.