“Oftentimes, success happens when you give into it and when you make yourself available and open to opportunities.”

“Holdups serve to help you learn more about what you are trying to achieve, push your boundaries and score a lot of small victories when you overcome all these unexpected hurdles.”

“It is not the ultimate achievement that makes you extraordinary; it is what you become on the way to that achievement that people celebrate. This is what fills 295 pages of your 300 page (auto)biography!”

“The world of success favours only the seekers, not the needers and not even the deservers.”

“You become ill or attract illness or dis-ease into your life because you refuse to let your brain grow.”

“Forcing yourself to do what matters over what does not, however simple; what is difficult, over what is not, however convenient; and what is right over what is bogus, however expedient, is self-discipline.”

“First you must want it. You must want it so much, it hurts. You must want it so much that it hurts and causes you sleepless nights. And when you ever get to sleep, it brings you nightmares. This kind of wanting is called passion. It is an intense desire that burns so much you can hardly stand yourself.”

“You do not get a better education, better results, better food, better allowances and – later in life – better salary, better working conditions or better life by demanding them from someone else.”

“Being educated means being able to use what you learn to create possibilities and to provide options that lessen or eliminate pain from your life and that of others. Passing standardised tests in the classroom is just a small part of education.”

“One of the biggest barriers to a great vision, is failure to emancipate oneself from a gradual personality fabrication; that overshadows the best of your unique capabilities in order to level yourself to a social norm.”

“Progress is a vague concept, if there is no vision to progress towards.”

“Effective operational activities are refined through process development.”