Excerpts from "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari"

• To savor the good one must know the bad.

• To transcend pain, you must first experience it. Or to put it another way, how can you really know the joy of being on the summit of the mountain unless you have first visited the lowest valley.

• If you meet with an outcome you did not expect and feel a little disappointed, remember that the laws of nature always ensure that when one door closes another opens.

• I have had dreams and I have had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.

• Awaken yourself to the power of your own mind to make things happen. Once you do, the universe will conspire with you to work magic in your life.

• When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all of your thoughts break their bonds: your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive and you discover yourself to be a greater person than you ever dreamed yourself to be.

• Persistence is the mother of personal change.

• Ironically, the less you focus on the end result, the quicker it will come. With one eye fixed on the destination, there is only one left to guide you along the journey.