Far too many people allow broken egos and wounded prides to convince them to seek justice before they seek understanding.

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.

Facts are never as salient as feelings.

Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination.

Necessity is the spur of genius.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

In God's sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.

I'm a private person; I stick to my neighbourhood and eat in my little restaurants.

No society that places the individual above itself will survive; but neither will any society that places the individual below itself.

See your misfortunes as blessings.

You take a weakness and start making it stronger.. You don't have to build your strengths - that you already possess... It is your weakness that needs the exercise