Before you can successfully make friends with others, first you have to become your own friend.

When you explore your fears then you set yourself free.

I pulled the homemade jail knife out that I had in my hand, Porkie pulled out the very sharp lockback knife that he had concealed up his sleeve. We told the warden and nurse to sit on the floor, and if they did as we told them then no one would get hurt.

Humans, unlike Jedi, are powerfully afraid of rejection. We do not survive well alone, so humans as a species are especially vulnerable to thoughts that make us afraid the rest of the “tribe” will desert us to die a sad, lonely death.

A self-limiting belief is no stronger than the flimsy rope that tethers an elephant by its foot.

If someone wants to be in your world then they will be anything you want them to in it.