“Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within.”

“Gods have a way of sprouting from vacant lots.”

“You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.”

“My mother, my psychiatrist and an assortment of sedatives eventually convinced me I was delusional.”

“Stop thinking “Outside the box” and look what is actually in the box first. You jump around from marketing gimmick to marketing gimmick without a clear plan or goal, hoping to reproduce someone else’s success without understanding all of the nuances and factors that went into that success. Further, people are so busy recreating the wheel that they have forgotten what the wheel looks like.”

“Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want.”

“I don’t know,” I said, exasperated. “What else do you have in your wacked-out world? Heat sensors? Mine fields? Dirigibles? Booby traps? Machine guns? Shrink rays? What?” “Aside from dirigibles, which are rather expensive and rare outside of trade routes, most of what you just said made no sense whatsoever,” he said, as delighted as a child hearing a foreign language for the first time. “But it all sounds very dangerous. And fun. Especially the part about the boobies.”