Requirements are for people who want to be unhappy. Because it’s your rules or the universe’s rules. The universe is going to win. Every time.

It's in the valley of failure that we sow our seeds of success.

Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.

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?

Help is a conversation. If one side talks too much, the other side will get bored. So make sure you help back when you can.

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

Every time you say yes to something you don’t want to do, this will happen: you will resent people, you will do a bad job, you will have less energy for the things you were doing a good job on, you will make less money, and yet another small percentage of your life will be used up, burned up, a smoke signal to the future saying, “I did it again.