12--Lose Battles, But Win The War: Grand StrategyGrand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.

Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it.

Gain great values by converting your time

The sky's always falling. Always. You'll see. People have no idea.

going to have an industrial society you must have places that will look terrible. Other places you set aside—to say, ‘This is the way it was.’

Final perseverance is the necessary evidence of genuine conversion.

I can't tell anyone to vote.

If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York.

Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.

We are the other of the other

Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup-they all die. So do we.

High expectations is the key to everything.