Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.

Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur: an ability to fail, an ability to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on those ideas, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

Mistakes I've made in the past make me afraid to try new things in the future. I want to be perfect.

I'm here now because of my faith. That's what got me singing and what has kept me singing. That is what I have: what has kept me doing right and has provided me with the chances and the attitude and the skills to do this.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

Mercy is what moves us toward God, while justice makes us tremble in his sight.

For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.