The fuel that one needs to go far isn’t so much brainpower as it is persistence-power.

There are critical moments in life when our choices determine much of what our future will be; but it is the habits that we acquire that will largely determine what we will become.

When confronting a seemingly impenetrable barrier, we should imitate the drill bit; it doesn’t instantly penetrate as a bullet does, but penetrates one tiny bit at a time until through.

If we allow ourselves to be surrounded by negative people, it is more likely that we’ll become more like them than that any of them will become like we are. This becomes a time to not try to educate, but a time to evacuate.