“When you can look a thing dead in the eye, acknowledge that it exists, call it exactly what it is, and decide what role it will take in your life then, my Beloved, you have taken the first step toward your freedom.”

“The first step to Happiness is deciding exactly what kind of life you want. That kinda comes from experience.”

“When you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you. And some of the stars don’t even exist anymore because their light has taken so long to get to us that they are already dead, or they have exploded and collapsed into red dwarfs. And that makes you seem very small, and if you have difficult things in your life it is nice to think that they are what is called negligible, which means they are so small you don’t have to take them into account when you are calculating something.”

“The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. ”

“The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this; decide what you want.”

“When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.”