ADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.

The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.

Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.

You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.

Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.

What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.

Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation—without the pestilence of panic or fear.

The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.

Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship.

Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us.

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.

The more stitches, the less riches.

I'm building my adult beverage empire the way I built my independent rap label. As my career.

I welcome every chance I get to interact with fans. I've made some very close friendships amongst fans, and I look forward to seeing them.

One hundred infidels committed suicide as they entered the holy city of Baghdad. Their tanks will become their tombs.

The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.

Even if people don't love it, I made exactly the piece of art that I wanted to make. It's super fearless - which is exactly how I feel right now. I am in a really good place.

How can one, who eats the flesh of others to swell his flesh, show compassion?