"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
— Aldous Huxley

"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book."
— Henry David Thoreau

"Getting sexy isn’t about becoming a different person. It’s about discovering and displaying what already lies inside of you."
— Brynne Dearie (infamous L.A. stripper)

"The great majority of people are “wandering generalities” rather than “meaningful specifics”. The fact is that you can't bit a target that you can't see. If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals."
— Zig Ziglar

"Everything is practice."
— Pele

"The never-ending task of self improvement."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."
— Jim Ryun

"We first make our habits, then our habits make us."
— John Dryden

"The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be."
— Og Mandino

"'Better to die with honor than to live in dishonor, though a throne be served up as temptation. Perhaps it was not power I sought, but perfection of self' (319)."
— Piers Anthony (A Spell for Chameleon)

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit."
— Aristotle

"Don't try to be great at all things. Pick a few things to be good at and be the best you can."
— Liz Ashe

"Wealth and opportunities are not assets acquired, but rather they are more contained in your person, in the way you think they are."
— Lisa Washington

"Seek first the kingdom of heaven WITHIN, whereby lies an abundance of treasures and resources that you need"
— Lisa Washington

"Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals."
— Aristotle

"Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
— George Bernard Shaw

"Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work."
— Michael Jordan

"Bink thought about how much of his adventure had centered around Chameleon's quest for a spell to make her normal--when she really was quite satisfactory, and even somewhat challenging, as she was. How many people similarly spent their lives searching for their own spells--some gratuitous benefit such as a silver tree or political power or undeserved acclaim--when all they really needed was to be satisfied with what they already had? Sometimes what they had was better than what they thought they wanted. Chameleon had thought she wanted to be normal; Trent had thought he wanted armed conquest; and Bink himself had thought he wanted a demonstrable magic talent. Everyone thought he wanted something. But Bink's real quest, at the end, has been to preserve Chameleon and Trent and himself as they were, and to make Xanth accept them that way. (343-44)."
— Piers Anthony (A Spell for Chameleon)

"Bink thought about how much of his adventure had centered around Chameleon's quest for a spell to make her normal--when she really was quite satisfactory, and even somewhat challenging, as she was. How many people similarly spent their lives searching for their own spells--some gratuitous benefit such as a silver tree or political power or undeserved acclaim--when all they really needed was to be satisfied with what they already had? Sometimes what they had was better than what they thought they wanted. Chameleon had thought she wanted to be normal; Trent had thought he wanted armed conquest; and Bink himself had thought he wanted a demonstrable magic talent. Everyone thought he wanted something. But Bink's real quest, at the end, has been to preserve Chameleon and Trent and himself as they were, and to make Xanth accept them that way. (343-44)."
— Piers Anthony (A Spell for Chameleon)