The biggest opportunities often hide in crises—the key is whether you can discover and seize them.

Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone telling you who you are.

The first fruit of this imagination—and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it—is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

The iron rule of nature is: You get what you reward for.If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.