It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

Fear wins or Freedom wins, and I choose Freedom.

Aliveness doesn't happen in silence. Aliveness doesn't happen in repression. Aliveness happens in action.

Ambition has to be joined with expectancy. A sense that you have a dream for yourself that you believe can happen.

The war you feel within - that restlessness, the unending uncertainty - is not to be dismissed, avoided, hated. That internal conflict is not dark, it is a beaming light trying to focus you, the rolling thunderous call of courage, the rays of greatness seeking to explode beyond your skin to touch once more the Spirit of Possibility.

Successful people take their current limitation and put it on their agenda as a job to do, as a thing to figure out and make happen.