“Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.”

The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.

An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business, it’s someone who makes things happen.

The most important actions are never comfortable.

Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.

Learn to be difficult when it counts.

Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.

People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment – now and not later.

If we define risk as ‘the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,’ inaction is the greatest risk of all.

There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.

Simplicity requires ruthlessness.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

I have plenty of money to do what I want to do, and I have the relationships.

For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.

There is always more information than attention.

Creating demand is hard. Filling demand is easier. Don’t create a product, then seek someone to sell it to. Find a market – define your customers – then find or develop a product for them.

The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

He was the blessing that came into her life. She was the gift that he found. The universe brought them into each others lives. Destiny would find a way to bring them together. And they would find their way to each other.

I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love.

I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love.

I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love.

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.