Most of life is on-the-job training. Some of the most important things can only be learned in the process of doing them. You do something and you get feedback - about what works and what doesn't. If you don't do anything for fear of doing it wrong, poorly, or badly, you never get any feedback, and therefore you never get to improve.

To achieve major success in life - to achieve those things that are most important to you - you must assume 100% responsibility for your life. Nothing less will do.

I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first Chicken Soup for the Soul book.

If you already know how to make your dream come true, then you're thinking too small.

Sometimes you dance with a partner, and sometimes you dance alone. But the important thing is to keep dancing.

You don't know you're going to get a 'No' until you ask, and if you don't ask, you've given yourself the No.

Don't kid yourself. Be honest with yourself. Take your own inventory.