You cannot buy or win happiness. You must choose it.

I say this in the book [Today Matters], we either spend our day repairing or preparing, and if I haven't taken good care of my today's, they accumulate. So all of a sudden today what I'm doing is I'm going back, I'm repairing bad relationships and wrong decisions, and I'm digging a hole. I'm not making any progress because I'm in a repairing mode, versus if I really make today count that prepares me for tomorrow. Tomorrow really will take care of itself if I do the right thing today.

Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.

Maturity does not always come with age; sometimes age comes alone.

The better you are at surrounding yourself with people of high potential, the greater your chance for success.

Pay now, play later; play now, pay later.

Find something you like to do so much that you would gladly do it for nothing; then learn to do it so well that people are happy to pay you for it.