Dreaming illustrates your hidden capacities and your unawakened ability.

You must accept that you can change and that a pattern of principles adhered to and used repeatedly will not only direct your life, but change it permanently.

Success is having consistent work habits.

What makes the great great? It is a sense of destiny.

Having a long term goal provides a catalyst for motivation at every waking moment.

As you move through life, set aside good ideas and give them to others to encourage and inspire.

Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.

If a despot like Adolf Hitler can think of 1000-year reign, why can't you think of a goal that is gonna last 100 years after you have gone?

Life is not a dress rehearsal - every day is opening night.

Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.

Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.

Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions.

Some people just don't like to be their self. I'm always looking, analyzing myself.

Everyone is just as committed and focused as they were the first season.

I would rather be hired solely for my talent, not just to fill a quota.

A businessman admits that he 'let go' an employee because he was a Sunni Muslim. You simply have to look after yourself, he explains. I am shocked, like a good Westerner should be.

It's easy to have the wrong type of people around you.

If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.

Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.