“Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.”

“Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.”

“Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.”

“Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence; the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature.”

“Redemption isn’t something that comes fast and easy. You have to put all your effort and heart into it to make it work.”

“There was nothing to it. The Super Chief was on time, as it almost always is, and the subject was as easy to spot as a kangaroo in a dinner jacket.”