Surround yourself with problem solvers, not problem creators.

If you want to become good at something, do it as often as possible. If you want to become an expert at it, do it every day.

The cost of procrastination is generally far greater than the cost of making mistakes.

You can never be free until you develop the mental strength to stop fretting over things you cannot control.

Everything changes for the better when you take ownership of your own problems.

It’s not stress that kills people, but how they react to it.

Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success.

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

Reality isn't the way you wish things to be nor the way they appear to be but the way they actually are.

The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him.

The desire to impress others is one of the worst forms of mental imprisonment.

Emotional commitment is a personal choice. Managers understand this even if their companies don’t.

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.

I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.

I just wanted to get the hell out of my town. I wanted to leave with reckless abandon. I didn't care where I ended up, as long as I saw as much as humanly possible.

A hero is someone who over and over does the right thing even though no one is there to witness it.

It really kind of sucked to be close to someone for so long and then suddenly not be anything anymore.

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

Instapaper is much bigger today than I could have predicted in 2008, and it has simply grown far beyond what one person can do. To really shine, it needs a full-time staff of at least a few people.

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

[Pope Francis] symbolically took the migrant south-north route to the United States by going to Cuidad Juarez on the border with Texas, and there he spoke of the human dignity of immigrants.