“If you do different, you will have different. If you begin to require more of yourself, that in and of itself is different.”

In the meantime, let’s agree that what makes a problem big is simply that it’s yours.

These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends’ children, the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit

At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you’re living your life doesn’t matter. What matters is whether you’re comfortable with it.

The truth doesn’t have versions, it just is.

This is no dress rehearsal.

Life’s managed, not cured.

I love life, but not everything in it. I love people, but not all of them. I love myself, but not everything about me.

Drama and crisis are currency to them because they love the power to make people react. They thrive on a good fight, a good scandal, a good drama.

Awareness without action is worthless.

You’re only lonely if you’re not there for you

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.

You can’t put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!

No matter how flat you make a pancake, it’s still got two sides.

Isn’t it amazing how easily you can cheat yourself out of the right choices by convincing yourself that you deserve the wrong ones? It’s highly illogical when you think about it. You deserve a better life, you deserve better health, and you deserve to lose weight.

I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer them keeping in mind that you are writing your children’s future with your answers.

Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.

But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle – friendship can only exist between good men.

The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.

A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.

All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.

Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.