Great times are great softeners

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.

Let’s stop glorifying the devil, giving him power that he does not deserve or have.

There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.

The way I play guitar is very, very hard and I bloody myself incredibly without the tape. And the nails are my picks.

Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.

Donald Trump is the head of a global power.

I had a bumper sticker on my car for a long time that said, "Kill your television." People helpfully pointed out that I was a total fraud because I was a television writer.

If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

We need to think less NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard), and more SWIMBY (Something Wonderful In My Back Yard)

The world is God's language to us.