If you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it.

Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won't feel bored.

Find the beliefs that are strangling your feelings, challenge them for your sake as well as theirs, and see how it feels to love someone without a thought about the future, simply for who they are today.

Stress is a byproduct of subconscious beliefs you have about the world. You can't choose not to believe something. You believe it because you think it's true. To eliminate stress, you must learn to challenge these beliefs so that you see them differently.

Remember that stress doesn't come from what's going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what's going on in your life.

Throughout history, independent minds have carried mankind forward. Whether they identified how to make fire or manufacture tools, develop rational philosophy or create man-glorifying art, pioneer scientific knowledge or invent the electric light, independent thinkers have created the goods on which human life and prosperity depend.

A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.