"In gardens it's not just plants and insects and microbes that grow. People grow too, and the best bit is that they don't realise it's happening. It just happens."

“The use it and lose it problem is pervasive, affecting more than 40,000 Californians a year.”

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

“There should be more booing in shops and restaurants and places like that when when the service is bad. If you've had a poor breakfast in a hotel, you should put your knife and fork down and boo.”

“When one person mentors, two lives are changed.”

“In the Sixties, there was a big resistance to the Vietnam War. People began reinterpreting all American history as a series of misadventures and crimes and oppressions visited upon the innocent, the poor, the defenseless, the minorities, and so on. This created a new narrative in America. Let's call it, "America the inexcusable." And this narrative has been drummed into the minds of our young people. A whole generation of Americans has been taught that theirs is a bad country. And it's then very difficult for them to figure out how one can one be a good citizen in a bad country.”

“Always double-knot your sneakers. One of my teammates once lost a shoe during a game!”

“Successful people rely heavily on their mentors. Ordinary people don't. It's that simple.”

Source : Robert G. Allen (2010). “Multiple Streams of Internet Income: How Ordinary People Make Extraordinary Money Online”, John Wiley & Sons

“You are not given the light by anyone—not even by a spiritual teacher. You are that light.”