Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.

I'm prepared to do battle for a dream that is worth dreaming.

The book is first and foremost something I made for myself.

To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren't as serious as you make them out to be.

Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.

By using money as the scapegoat and work as our all-consuming routine, we are able to conveniently disallow ourselves to do otherwise: 'John, I'd love to talk about the gaping void I feel in my life, the hopelessness that hits me like a punch in the eye every time I start my computer in the morning, but I have so much work to do! I've got at least three hours of unimportant email to reply to before calling prospects who said 'no' yesterday. Gotta run!

Age doesn't matter. An open mind does.