The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.

Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I often think of the worst case scenario. I call it 'the eaten by wolves factor.' If I do something, what's the most terrible thing that could happen? Would I be eaten by wolves? One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist, is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. There are a lot of things I don't worry about, because I have a plan in place if they do.

Walls aren't put in our life to stop us, they are there to test how much we really want somthing.

A lot of people want a shortcut. I find the best shortcut is the long way, which is basically two words: work hard.

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit... and keep moving forward.

Never make a decesion until you have to". He'd also warn me that even if I was in a position of strenght, whether at work or in a relationship, I had to play fair. "Just because you're in the driver's seat, doesn't mean you have to run people over.

It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not.