People in their early 20s are invariably weird.

Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It's perfectly OK to want the impossible. It's not OK to pretend that your desires don't matter.

Willpower is a concentration of force. You gather up all your energy and make a massive thrust forward.

For good or ill, your habits will make or break you.

Thoughts are like seeds. If you want different results in life, you have to figure out which thoughts are capable of growing those results and which aren’t.

Are you one of those people who notices the problems of the world and says ... somebody ought to do something about that? Why not you? If you feel a strong urge to see a problem fixed, then why not act on it?

By all means listen to other people's advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct.