A person without self-expression is a person without personal freedom.

Be the Mick Jagger of the mailroom, the Warren Buffet of bookkeeping and the Bono of stapler selling.

We tell children what they should do when they grow up so we can impress the people next door.

When you most feel like giving up is when you most need to be keeping on.

Perhaps the things that break our hearts are the very things that serve to open them.

Every event has a purpose and every setback a lesson. Failure is essential to personal expansion. It brings inner growth and a whole host of psychic rewards. Never regret your past. Rather embrace it as the teacher it is.

And the dangerous thing about excuses is that if we recite them enough times, we actually come to believe they are true.