Patience

When falling, the tendency is to tighten up, to brace for impact. But in truth, the safest thing one can do is remain calm — even curious about the shifting world around you.

Your life isn't some big break. It's about taking one significant life-transforming step at a time.

Your purpose is to do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.

When a grown man says he wants a cookie, he wants a cookie. The art of doctoring is negotiating with hope.

Don't be scared if you don't do things in the right order, or if you don't do some things at all. If you have a checklist, good for you. Structured ambition can sometimes be motivating. But also, feel free to let it go.

Real success requires step after step after step after step. It requires choice after choice.

Take a step that will lead you toward the realization of your dream, and then take another, and another, and another.

Persist. Be patient. Be well.

Live each day as if you will live forever.

Gear yourself for the long haul. Success, however small, however incomplete, success is still success. Better is good. It may not be perfect, it may not be great, but it's good. That's how progress happens.

I didn't know who I was or what I was going to do with my life when I finished college. I wasn't any clearer about my direction than the day I graduated high school.

There will be times when your best is not enough. There can be many reasons for this, but as long as you give your best, you'll be okay.