You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.

Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune - really anything, everything - to their advantage.

When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?

Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.

What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.

Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.