Ego is certainly there in many of the greatest and most dizzying tales of success - but it's there in some of the greatest stories of failure and self-implosion as well.

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.

He has fought many battles with us" (Jace) By which you mean one battle" muttered Simon. "Two if you count the one I was a rat

for you to see beauty heredoes not meanthere is beauty in meit means there is beauty rootedso deep within youyou can’t help butsee it everywhere

I will rather be poor doing what I love, than to be rich hating what I do.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First let her think she's having her way. And second let her have it.

Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.

While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it.

Music is almost mystical to me. It really has an incredibly powerful force.

America is still an eagle, and she's ready to soar again.

Love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes, running through the mountains...