Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.

Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits.

If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they'll prove you right

If you believe you can change - if you make it a habit - the change becomes real.

The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.

Champions don’t do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the orther team to react. They follow the habits they’ve learned.

This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.

The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.

Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.

The problem is that your brain can't tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it's always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.

Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.

Does not… the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?

The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for time and eternity is determined, in quietude and solitude.

However, this is too harmonious, grand, and overwhelming a universe to believe it all on accident.

Freedom lies in being bold.

To set sail somewhere is more important than life itself.

While I may never be in remission from cancer, I am currently in remission from an unhealthy relationship to food.

Writing is not the lottery. New writers have to be realistic about what it takes to get published. But there is one similarity to the lottery: You have to play to win.

We listen, we watch, we learn. We open our hearts and we open our minds, open our souls.

Man follows only phantoms.

Shot Gun Boogie, I wanted wedding bells. I'll be back little gal, when your pappy runs out of shells.