Let's define dumb as being different from stupid. Dumb means you don't know what you're supposed to know. Stupid means you know it but make bad choices. […] Dumb used to be a by-product of lack of access, bad teachers, or poor parenting. Today, dumb is a choice, one that's made by individuals who choose not to learn. If you don't know what you need to know, that's fixable. But first you have to want to fix it.

The driving force that gets people to pay a specialist is that their disease is unpredictable or hard to diagnose. The reason we're here is to solve the hard problems.

There's a difference between passively accepting every element of your environment (and thus missing opportunities to exploit) and being wise enough to leave the unchangeable alone, or at least work around it.

When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

The book, Max on Life, is really kind of a second chance to answer these questions.

He also knows the importance of intuition.

The quality of one's life is directly related to the quality of questions one asks oneself.

We need to make a few critical decisions in major areas of life and then manage those decisions day to day.

God will help you make the choices that guide you into His path for each stage and age of your life.

Always a choice, even in not choosing.

Honey, I've learned to ask not why but what? 'Now that I'm in this impossible place, Lord, what do I do next?

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.