Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull . . . was no ordinary bird. Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else, Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved to fly.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.