Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes.

Rejection-and the fear of rejection-is the biggest impediment we face to choosing ourselves.

Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.

Infinite patience gets you immediate results.

Reading is the best return on investment. You have to live your entire life in order to know one life. But with reading you can know 1000s of people's lives for almost no cost. What a great return!

Hold your breath. Try holding your breath for just thirty seconds. That’s all it takes. Try it right now while you are looking at this line. Now…on the twenty-ninth second, do any opinions matter?

If we truly want to learn, we never learn when we are talking. We only learn when we are listening.