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As you start your journey, the first thing you should do is throw away that store-bought map and begin to draw your own.

Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people — or find a different room.

It doesn't matter that your dream came true if you spent your whole life sleeping. Whatever happens happens now, so live your life where the action is — now.

Right at this moment in your life, you have nothing to lose. Everything you have acquired of value is locked inside you. If you have a dream, now is the time to pursue it, before you buy furniture.

Nobody else is paying as much attention to your failures as you are. You're the only ones who are obsessed with the importance of your own life. To everyone else, it's just a blip on the radar screen.

True opportunity never knocks. I have found that I have to go looking for opportunity — and if I don't find it, I have to create it.

If you never venture beyond what you know, you've spawned your own limitations. You've erected the walls of your own private prison cell.

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, or a parent.

Where do the mermaids stand? Answer that question, and you could build a school, a nation, or a whole world on it.

He was committed to lifelong learning. He settled for nothing less than excellence. He not only sought truth — Galileo believed more than anything else that he would find it.

That's the power of truth and learning and excellence — the search for what it is that ignites the human spirit, overcoming the unexpected and discovering the unknown. That's what life is all about.

Believe that the sort of life you wish to live is, at this very moment, just waiting for you to summon it up. And when you wish for it, you begin moving toward it, and it, in turn, begins moving toward you.