The athlete knows the day will never come when he wakes up pain-free. He has to play hurt.

Contempt for failure is our cardinal virtue.

Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.

It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul.

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.