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

The fishing is best where the fewest go. There is just less competition for bigger goals.

I’ll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.

The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance

Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.

The way that you become world-class is… by asking good questions.

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

You can lose money and make it back, you can’t do that with time.

Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action are all examples of eustress—stress that is healthful and the stimulus for growth.

Many a false step was made by standing still.

Age doesn’t matter. An open mind does.

It’s not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.

One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.

Reality is negotiable.

If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.

It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.

Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.

Lose who may-I still can say, Those who win heaven, blest are they!

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

Ah, love, – you are my unutterable blessing…..I am in full sunshine now.