What Can One Girl Do?
“If one man can destroy everything, why can’t one girl change it?” —Malala Yousafzai
How to Succeed at Acting According to Spencer Tracy
“Know your lines and don’t bump into the furniture.” —Spencer Tracy
How to Achieve Balance and Perspective in Life
“Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.” —Gregory Peck
How to Survive in Life According to Bette Davis
“I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.” —Bette Davis (Photo credit: Alan Davis)
Booker T. Washington on How to Achieve Excellence
“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.” —Booker T. Washington
When It It Time to Do What’s Right?
“The time is always right to do what’s right.” —Martin Luther King Jr.
Dealing with the Idea That Some People Are Better at Something
“There are always people who will be better at something than you are. You have to learn to be a...
Beware of the Light at the End of the Tunnel
“There is a light at the end of the tunnel… Hopefully its not a freight train!” —Mariah Carey
Why What You’re Willing to Risk Matters So Much
“How much you truly believe in something can be manifested only through what you are willing to risk for it.”—Nassim...
How Soon Should You Launch Your Enterprise?
“If you’re not embarrassed by your first product, you’ve waited too long to launch.” —Reid Hoffman
How to Be More Accepting
“Acceptance means that you know, regardless of what happened, that there is something bigger than you at work. It also...
Why It’s Imperative to Stretch Your Mind
“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who’s the Best and Least Costly Psychiatrist in the World?
“There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. —Bernard Williams”
The Power of One Voice
“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.” —Malala Yousafzai
Why You Need to Trust Your Gut
“Sometimes a feeling is all we humans have to go on.” —James T. Kirk, Captain USS Enterpise
Why the World Owes You Nothing
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” —Mark...
Why Each Springtime is Unique
“Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.” —Ellis Peters
Here’s Why You’re Young at Heart
“Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24, 25 in their heart.” —Bruce Willis
One Tip to Manage Your Email Inbox Forever
“Only give your email to people you want to hear from. If your inbox is disaster, it’s your own fault.”...
How to Have a Forgiving Spirit
“Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past.” —Lama Surya Das
Why You Need to Beware of the Stories You Read or Tell
“Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.”...
How God Plays Dice
“Not only does God play dice but… He sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.” —Stephen Hawking
Here’s What Ties All Mankind Together
“All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.” —Jack Kerouac
One Reason Not to Speak to Your Mother-in-Law
“I haven’t spoken to my mother-in-law for eighteen months. I don’t like to interrupt her.” —Sir Kenneth Dodd
Do You Have a Grand Memory for Forgetting?
“I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.” —Robert Louis Stevenson
Being a Stranger in a Strange Land
“I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of...
It’s the Bullies Who Are Afraid
“It’s the bullies who are afraid, are the ones that do all the fighting. It’s not the secure kids that...
The Comedy of Martin Shkreli
“My whole life has been one theme of self-sacrifice for my investors.” —Martin Shkreli
What Victor Borge Saved During Daylight Saving Time
“I don’t mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I’ve saved...
What Do You Do for Recreation?
Maude Lebowski: What do you do for recreation? The Dude: Oh, the usual. I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid...
The Importance of Our Voices
“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.” —Malala Yousafzai
Improve Your Odds of Success
“Your odds of success improve when you are forced to direct all of your energy and attention to fewer tasks.”...
How to Make It Through Life
“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.” —Bruce Lee
How to Increase Your Enthusiasm
“Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.” —Pele
Brian Tracy on The Greatest Gift to Others
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
The Art of Inner Peace
Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it...
Getting and Giving Love
“The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is...
