“The best thing you can do is get very good at being you.”

“you can complain because roses have thorns or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.”

“Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think.”

“About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.”

“Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.”

“Writing every day is very, very helpful, but set the bar at a place where you have no excuse: It doesn't matter how tired you are, how late it is, you will do it. So if you say, "I will write one hundred words a day" — set the bar there, and then you can actually get over that bar.”

“Right now, your company gets the results—good or bad—that it was designed to get. If your vision of the future differs from your current situation, if you want to get better results, then you must change the way you do things. If you don’t, how can you expect results that are any different from what you’ve already achieved?”