“The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before”

“True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be.”

“By learning these eternal truths, not only will you prepare your family for a better future and change your family history forever, you will also gain all of the self-confidence you need. You’ll wake up every day excited about being alive that day, and know that today is better than yesterday, and tomorrow will be even better than today. You will be linked to the chain of prosperity.”

“Write about something you know. Try to leave your readers better off than they were before.”

“The problem," he said, "with being one of the best is that you still have to get better. But you're competing with yourself.”

“The idea of "the authentic self," and how everyone is always talking about "being yourself," and how when you're yourself you get friends or you get boyfriends, and until you're yourself you don't. It's a crazy idea, because who's self would you otherwise be being? That relationship between constructed identities and identities that feel authentic to you is really fascinating to me. I think about it a lot.”