“If your guard is up, let it down. If you’ve constructed a defensive wall to protect yourself and keep all the bad guys out, don’t forget who that wall also prevents from getting in – the good guys.”

It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes – distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.

Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you’ll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life.

We get to choose how we’re going to live – what level of energy, what level of vibrancy, what level of excitement.

Successful people take their current limitation and put it on their agenda as a job to do, as a thing to figure out and make happen.

No matter how small you start, start something that matters.

If you create incredible value and information for others that can change their lives – and you always stay focused on that service – the financial success will follow.

At the end of our lives we all ask, did i live? Did i love? Did i matter?

I won’t let others stoke fear in my heart. I choose to remain true to who I am and where my dreams direct me no matter the hardship I might incur. I remember it always: Fear wins or Freedom wins, and I choose Freedom.

I have to laugh when I receive newsletters from major personalities and when you hit reply, you get a ‘do-not-reply’ address. It’s ridiculous! Don’t you want your customers to reply to you?

Drama in our lives is the greatest indicator that we’re not focused on meaningful goals. On the path to purpose you don’t have time for drama.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you’re definitely not an expert.

Choosing our own aims and seeking to bring them to fruition creates a sense of vitality and motivation in life. The only things that derail our efforts are fear and oppression.

When the world question your abilities, respond with your actions.

No matter your position, circumstances, or opportunities in life, you always have the freedom of mind to choose how you experience, interpret, and, ultimately, shape your world.

The time you want the map, is before you enter the woods.

Why having been endowed with the courageous heart of a lion, do we live as mice?

I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.

Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.

Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant part of home equity.

I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.

You want to set this one down so you can take a breath, and keep reading–all at the same time.

The role of humour is to make people fall down and writhe on the Axminster, and that is the top and bottom of it.

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points.

I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;