We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

A step in the wrong direction is better than staying on the spot all our life. Once you're moving forward you can correct your course as you go. Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're standing still.

Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.

You are not your mistakes. Just because you have done something stupid does not make you stupid.

Adopt the motto: It doesn't matter who's right, but what's right.

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk — and to act.

Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.