“Purpose-driven people have this infectious glint in their eyes. They’re unconditionally happy. They’re fulfilled. They know what they want, and they know where they’re going. Those without purpose are the exact opposite. Even truckloads of money, soaring success or a drop-dead gorgeous partner can’t fill the void of not knowing and pursuing your true purpose.”

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.”

“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.”

“Without deviation from the norm, progress it not possible.”

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

“This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.”

“Success is dependent on effort.”

“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasional­ly look at the results.”

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.”

“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”

“I have never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.”

“Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.”

“It’s not the load that breaks you down. It’s the way you carry it.”

“A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.”

“Objectivity, like the claim that one is nonpartisan or reasonable, is usually a defensive posture for those who fear involvement in the passions, partisanships, conflicts, and changes that make up life; they fear life. An ‘objective’ decision is generally lifeless. It is academic and the word ‘academic’ is a synonym for irrelevant.”

“In America, it’s far more shameful to owe money than it is to steal it.”

“Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak.”