Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book

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.

No men can save himself, that's why Jesus was nailed on the cross.

You’re calling out the wolf, darlin’.

There comes a time when all the secrets are told and all that is left are their spent ghosts.

The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion.

Here’s why I find it impossible to be a Republican: any crowd that instantly cheers the execution of 234 individuals is a crowd I want to flee, not join.

I rightly pass for an atheist.

Maybe part of my animus against the English is the way they have always treated the Irish and they way they still think about the Irish.

The bear is what we all wrestle with. Everybody has their bear in life. It's about conquering that bear and letting him go.