I can live with no responsibility whatsoever, but the price I pay is that nothing matters. Or I can reverse it and everything matters, but I have to take the responsibility that is associated with that.

People think they think, but it’s not true. It’s mostly self-criticism that passes for thinking.

I don’t tell people they’re okay the way they are. No, I say you could be way more than you are.

That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.

Don’t practice what you don’t want to become.

You’re going to pay a price for everything you do and everything you don’t do.

Maybe it’s not the world that’s at fault. Maybe it’s you.

Can you imagine yourself in 10 years if, instead of avoiding the things you know you should do, you actually did them every single day? That’s powerful.

What would the world be like if people stopped avoiding the things they knew they should do?

You should never give up the better that resides within for the security you already have — and certainly not when you have already caught a glimpse, an undeniable glimpse, of something beyond.

Wish upon a star, and then act properly, in accordance with that aim.

Start to stop doing what you know to be wrong.

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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.

What you aim at determines what you see.

To learn is to die voluntarily and be born again, in great ways and small.

The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.

Attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind.

To decide to move forward courageously into the land of the unknown. That’s one of the secrets to a good life.

Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.