The reason so many people fail to achieve success is because they fail to fail enough times.

- from Rich Dad's CASHFLOW Quadrant book by Robert Kiyosaki

The truth about most people is as simple as it is unbearable: we rarely want what is best for everyone; we mostly want what's best for ourselves.

- from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman

We have been living in a perfect moment. And it is passing. The world of the past few decades has been the best it will ever be in our lifetime. Instead of cheap and better and faster, we're rapidly transitioning into a world that's pricier and worse and slower. Because the world - our world - is breaking apart.

- from The End of the World is Just the Beginning book by Peter Zeihan

It is a heartbreaking thing for children to have children. These kids, they just go off and have babies, and they have no idea of the commitment involved, how their paths will be as irrevocably altered as mine was. Until you are standing in the responsibility of parenting, you cannot truly understand how it shifts your life's terrain.

- from Just as I Am book by Cicely Tyson

A good cup of tea will cure all ills, and if it doesn't, have another.

- from The Maid book by Nita Prose

You need to break a few eggs to make an omelet. I don't know if that's true, but if you break the eggs, better to make an omelet than a mess.

- from Win book by Harlan Coben

As an actor, I am not a puppet, but rather an open vessel - a channel through which a character flows.

- from Just as I Am book by Cicely Tyson

That's how it was when I was ten: nothing but trouble outside my head, nothing but miracles inside it.

- from Midnight's Children book by Salman Rushdie

Gotta do what you can to stay alive, son. Turn a liability into an advantage whenever you can. Remember that, if you live.

- from The Way of Kings book by Brandon Sanderson

Meditation is intermittent fasting for the mind.

- Naval Ravikant, from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant book by Eric Jorgenson