A Master Jedi feels emotions, but they do not allow them to influence their reasoning. Yoda told Luke that he would know the good from the bad when he was 'calm, at peace.

The moment you become friends with your inner Self, you realize that the failures or hindrances that you met earlier were caused more by your disconnected status with your inner Being.

Once you feel nice about yourself, you have planted the first seed to develop self-confidence.

There are two things essential if you want to enhance your Jedi self-confidence: 1/ belief that it is possible 2/ that self-help is the best help

Concentrate more on your achievements than your failures. Learn to take the failures as opportunities to rectify your errors.

Self-belief, also called self-efficacy, is the kind of feeling you have when you have, like a Jedi, mastered a particular kind of skill and with its help have been able to achieve your set goals.

Jedi are always assessing situations, actions and possibilities. Jedi don’t just think outside of the box with the help from the Force, they also adapt to situations outside of the box!

Jedi are conversationalists and negotiators, bringing people together and solving problems. Jedi listen and feel to what others are saying.

Inspiration ends when reading ends.

What pillow can one have like a good conscience?

The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.

You can't count on notoriety lasting very long, and there's no way to predict whether anyone will care about your books or you in three years, let alone ten or twenty.

Marriage is a strange combination of dream and reality, and we spend our lives as couples trying to negotiate that divide.

You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.

Well, it has been rather hectic since the 11th of September, and even before then it was quite busy.

There is very little in civilized life that demands everything you got intellectually, physically, and emotionally. Driving is living. It's aggressive instead of passive living.

You can't live a positive life with a negative mind.

I always liked a good love song and I dig being in love.