Success happens with a consistent increase in quality in your life

The ability to find meaning in the most difficult times, I think, is one of the most important skills of life.

You can make a lot of money. You can rule kingdoms or run huge businesses or control vast terrain. But if you're just doing it for yourself, you're not really a success.

Much more devastating than frustration is the emotion of disappointment.

Success leaves clues, Proximity is power. Love your family, CHOOSE your peers.

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.

You can't influence somebody when you're judging them.