When the awareness of what is achievable brushes your life, your journey has begun.

Extend your "best before" date by living a youthful life.

Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck.

Once you figure out what you want in life—expect nothing less.

No one can take the shot for you.

It's sometimes easier to help others rather than helping yourself. The trick is to listen to your "self" as a friend. This may be the simplest change you ever make in life, with the biggest impact.

Upon achieving a lifelong dream, I thought, this is the way to live your life -- in the moment, and to the fullest.

When healthy competition prevails -- you come out to play and you play to win.

Needs cause motivation. Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self-actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need in our lives.

The decide word is so powerful. It's amazing what you can do once you decide to do it.

Awareness makes us emotionally brilliant.

Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Vir

I told myself that I was going to live the rest of my life as if it were Saturday.

The language of my books has shaped me as a man.

Nature is written in mathematical language.

The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.

I'm never lonely when I'm writing, because you live with the characters that are so alive in your mind. And you really see them and know them and get to be friends with them.

Just because I use the photographic medium, that doesn't mean I'm a photographer.

The real threat to Linux adoption is Apple, not Microsoft. If you didn't know, now you know.

Japan needs to cooperate with China economically. This is understood better by the business community than the government.