I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.

We cannot even reproduce our thoughts entirely in words.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

The objective of all human arrangements is through distracting one's thoughts to cease to be aware of life.