Failing one time — or even several times — doesn’t make you a failure any more than losing one game makes you a loser.

We place artificial demands on ourselves that undermine our happiness. These demands force us to work harder and harder to cross a finish line that keeps moving.

Achieving success is hard staying successful is even harder.

Moral character is the DNA of success and happiness.

It’s better to bite your tongue than to eat your words.

There’s more to life than increasing its speed.

People stop trying when there’s no benefit for being exceptional and no consequence for being mediocre.

Keeping score, in friendships, is a losing game.

It’s your life to live. Own it! You have to live with yourself for the rest of your life.

What counts that we’re not counting?

You send a message by what you say and what you do. If words aren’t supported with consistent actions, they will ring hollow.

I can resist everything but love.

The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.

ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.

The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.

Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

I argue that legal equality has failed resistance movements aimed at transforming material conditions of violence, and that trans activists should take a decidedly different approach.

I think that always makes it fun, trying to create a heroic character and putting your own twist on it and injecting your own personality into it.

One of the things, universally, that psychologists found with hijackers in the early '70s was that they all struggled with women.

A great man may commence life in a hovel.

Dorian Yates and I have nothing in common, physically speaking. He's a Volkswagen; I'm a Porsche.