The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

It's only too late if you don't start now.

Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

Doing what you love isn't a priviledge; it's an obligation.