Attention shapes the self, and is in turn shaped by it.

The mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master.

You have the right to work, never to its fruits.

The generality of mankind cannot accompany us one short hour unless the path is strewn with flowers.

What do you care what other people think?

No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.

You can control what you think, and you can control how you think, therefore you can control who you are.

If your goal doesn't have a schedule, it is a dream.

One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.

Often, the key to succeeding at something big is to break it into its tiniest pieces and focus on how to succeed at just one piece.

Getting cheated occasionally is the small price for trusting the best of everyone, because when you trust the best in others, they generally treat you best.

It's possible that a not-so-smart person who can communicate well can do much better than a super-smart person who can't communicate well.

When you're thinking about something that you don't understand, you have a terrible, uncomfortable feeling called confusion. It's a very difficult and unhappy business. And so, most of the time, you're rather unhappy, actually, with this confusion. You can't penetrate this thing.

The confusion is because we are some kind of apes that are kind of stupid, trying to put two sticks together to reach the banana, and we can't quite make it. And I got this feeling all the time, that I'm an ape trying to put two sticks together. So I always feel stupid. Once in a while though, the sticks go together on me and I reach the banana.

I was an ordinary person who studied hard.

Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: everything around you was made up by people no smarter than you.

You've got to act, and you've got to be willing to fail.

You are always to some degree wrong, and the goal is to be less wrong.

Lost time is never found again.

Until death, all defeat is psychological.