If you've got a billion dollars and you're ungrateful, you're a poor man. If you have very little but you're grateful for what you have, you're truly rich.

The power of reading a great book is that you start thinking like the author. For those magical moments while you are immersed in the forests of Arden, you are William Shakespeare; while you are shipwrecked on Treasure Island, you are Robert Louis Stevenson; while you are communing with nature at Walden, you are Henry David Thoreau. You start to think like they think, feel like they feel, and use imagination as they would. Their references become your own, and you carry these with you long after you've turned the last page.

I used to be, like, "Sleep when I die."

People are bigger than anything that can happen to them.

The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them you immediately begin to create momentum.

Everybody's got a past. The past does not equal the future unless you live there.

Change is inevitable. Progress is optional .