You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

If you don’t set a baseline standard for what you’ll accept in life, you’ll find it’s easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that’s far below what you deserve.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more

Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.

The secret to living is giving.

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Life is found in the dance between your deepest desire and your greatest fear.

Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give to it.

Why live an ordinary life, when you can live and extraordinary one

Everybody’s life is either rewarding or an example.

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

The world we live in is the world we choose to live in, whether consciously or unconsciously. If we choose bliss, that’s what we get. If we choose misery. we get that too.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.

Live life fully while you’re here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You’re going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.

Identify your problems, but give your power and energy to solutions.

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular

The major fears of modern man could be boiled down to two things: too much e-mail and getting fat.

Mini-retirements are wonderful, but I’m not going to spend my entire life on the sidelines.

The concept of lifestyle design as a replacement for multi-staged career planning is sound.

Once your life shifts from pitching outbound to defending against inbound, however, you have to ruthlessly say “no” as your default. Instead of throwing spears, you’re holding the shield.

By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable. It’s the perfect example of having your cake and eating it, too.

A large guaranteed decrease in present quality of life doesn’t justify a large speculative return.