Success can breed contempt, and a casual attitude toward danger.

One hour three times per week in the gym is no counterbalance to all of the other behavior in those other 165 hours

Inconsistency, incompetence, and lies are all cut short by the ground. It will stop you if you can't stop yourself.

Modern man is conditioned to expect instant gratification, but any success or triumph realized quickly, with only marginal effort, is necessarily shallow. Meaningful achievement takes time, hard work, persistence, patience, proper intent and self-awareness. The path to success is punctuated by failure, consolidation, and renewed effort.

We may train ourselves to be adaptable as possible, to respond appropriately in each situation, but the ideal of controlling the outcome or steering events as they occur must be relinquished. Chaos rules it all.

Some of us wake up. Others roll over.

It doesn't have to be fun to be fun.