The writer's task is not to judge, but to understand.

I don’t compete with nobody but myself. My biggest competition is me.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

One isn't born one's self. One is born with mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas—and you have to work through it all.

The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.