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

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

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.

Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.

I've talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they're judged. They think they're unattractive.