Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
You never know what motivates you.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Who seeks shall find.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.