We want to avoid pain and have pleasure, so if our early attempts to achieve our dreams fail, we want to avoid the pain of future failure and rejection, so we stop trying and write it off with a broadbrush, "I'm just not driven enough, not well educated enough, not attractive enough, not smart enough."

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

Most everybody thinks that if I want to get big rewards I need to take huge risks. But if you keep thinking that, you're gonna be broke.

If you add the value, you will become the brand. Find a way to add more value than anyone else does

The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.

If we get total certainty, we get … bored out of our minds. So, God, in Her infinite wisdom, gave us a second human need, which is uncertainty. We need variety. We need surprise.

You shape your perceptions, or someone shapes them for you. You do what you want to do, or you respond to someone else's plan for you.