Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other words in a phrase or sentence that can create magic. Perhaps literally.

Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.

We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174

You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well? It'd go like this: You'd get the boss on the line and say, "Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore." Call in well.

It's personal freedom, not hundred dollar bills that lights the soul's cigar.

Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.