Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

If you're trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.

I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.

I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.

Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren't my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.

Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results.