Being a leader is not about finding ways to get others to serve you, but knowing how to serve your followers.

People fear what they do not understand.

Always hear others out and remain open-minded the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn.

The more a mind thinks upon something, the deeper it will take root and affect all subsequent and related thought.

Most physical battles begin once mental ones have been lost, anyway. Conquer the mind, conquer the body.

The mind thinks upon, processes, and remembers what the senses forget.

The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams.

Like tiny gods, all that we say and do holds a power so great that any one of us in any given moment can be responsible for the birth of a new civilization or the collapse of our own.

No army is comprised of all the same kinds of units or types of troops. There is power in diversity. If you always see only one choice, or use only one option, you will surely lose more than you win.

Always think at least two steps ahead [in everything, with everyone].

[Everything you write is] not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient's emotions be the gondola, and your words, its gondolier.

Living is hard--dying is easy. You close your eyes and never open them again. What's so difficult about that? Nothing really--except it hurts like hell to those you leave behind.

What you call life is but a dream, and reality is relative.

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

The late 20th century had just enough communication abilities to allow superstar-ness and communality to happen. It was a musical renaissance that rivals the visual one that happened in the 1400s.

I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10, 000 years old, that's just wrong.

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.

The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.

We need another and a wiser and a perhaps more mystical concept of animals.

In the mountains of wisdom no climbing is in vain.

Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.