Every physical response, every psychological change and every mental transformation starts with the mind.

Before you can act you must choose. Before you can choose you must know. Before you can know you must feel. And before you can feel you must be trained.

Fathom your motivation so that you understand what you are prepared to do and why.

The moment you establish a line of communication between two points, you subtly change both. That is also true for the way the brain is affected by the mind.

We cannot learn something new and stick to it without a modular approach to application, positive reinforcement and a real change of environment.

Reality is not a thought experiment.

These mental and physical components of self­ belief are closely interlinked. They are used to slowly interweave the per­sonal narratives that very effectively create a powerful sense of identity.

without the mind the body is not capable of delivering anything beyond an average performance.

Confidence, even when under pressure, has a way of turning an impossible situation into just another challenge to be met.

Our insecurities drive us. Our fears control us. We try to hide the first and deny the second and it is exhausting us.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

There is good in every year.

I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.

Red in the head, Silver in the heart

reason why prosperity spread, and why it continues to spread, is the transmission of technologies and the ideas underlying them.

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Restrictions are difficult to enforce in a world where anybody can make anything.

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.