My best mentor is a mechanic - and he never left the sixth grade. By any competency measure, he doesn't have it. But the perspective he brings to me and my life is, bar none, the most helpful.

Freedom requires responsibility to choose who we are above and beyond our immediate impulses, needs, and social pressures, so that we can genuinely express the type of person we want to be, live the life we truly want to live, leave the legacy we desire.

A lot of people have the ambition, but they never ask themselves, Do I really believe I can do this?

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.

If you look at high performers they are always the most passionate - in any industry.

To inspire a singularity of focus, a challenge must be important to you and it must be something you feel you should do now in this moment. If it's trivial or not time-bound, you won't engage. So in selecting your next challenge in life, choose one that is meaningful and will demand your complete concentration.

When the world question your abilities, respond with your actions.