Trophies should go to the winners. Self-esteem does not lead to success in life. Self-discipline and self-control do, and sports can help teach those.

Willpower is a muscle that can be strengthened.

The societal pursuit of high self-esteem for everyone may literally end up doing considerable harm.

What sets human beings apart from animals is not the pursuit of happiness, which occurs all across the natural world, but the pursuit of meaning, which is unique to humans.

For most of us... the problem is not a lack of goals but rather too many of them.

People with high but unstable self-esteem exhibit the greatest hostility.

Evil is not likely to result where people firmly believe that ends do not justify the means.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Change Management = The human side of change.

When the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it, because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.

I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.

Enduring means accepting. Accepting things as they are and not as you would wish them to be, and then looking ahead, not behind.

I heard the sighing of the reedsAt noontide and at evening,And some old dream I had forgottenI seemed to be remembering.

Sometimes that happens when people don't really know how long they're going to have to stretch their story out for.

Sun! Love it but know I should not be in it so much.

There is nothing more dangerous than a person with only one right answer.

You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.