The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.

Eighty percent of success is just showing up.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

There's nothing you've ever been successful at that you didn't work on every day.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.