"Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming."

"Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."

"Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea."

"Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion."

"No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better."

"We do not remember the passing of hours, but the resonance of moments. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

"Act well your part, there all the honour lies."