Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't believe in talent. I believe in passion.

Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.

Root out all the "to be" verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No "It was" or "they are" or "I am." Don't let it be, make it happen.

The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.

Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.

a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.

When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.