A mind content both crown and kingdom is.

You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.

Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others—that is too high a price to pay.

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.

Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.

Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.

No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.

Be open to the possibility that there are other paths available to you in relating to yourself and to another.

You can choose the quality and the type of reality you experience every day through your focus. What you focus on, you feel.

Reality is not static—its properties are in constant flux, so perhaps we are as much in the world as we can ever be, and that's the problem.

It's not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.

The only thing to do with tears is water your flowers with them, so that there is something to show the world when the sun comes out.

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

Nicholas this is one of those 'yes' or 'no' questions again. You seem to have a problem with those. Did you or did you not kill a woman - Jo

It's only a drop in the ocean - but the ocean wouldn't be the same without that drop.

I have no interest in celebrities. If all the superrich disappeared, the world economy would not even notice. The superrich are irrelevant to the economy.

If I were a cassowary On the plains of Timbuctoo, I would eat a missionary, Cassock, band, and hymn-book too.