You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

Let your confidence reflect your contentedness.

A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth.

The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.

To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.