It angers me to see armed defenders at the bottom of Lost Cause statues, adding a renewed threat of violence to icons that are themselves part of an ideology of violence and intimidation.

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.

I didn’t like trusting, I didn’t like setting greater than mild expectations,

Tim Price is truly blessed - he plays music because he loves it.

Well my chocolate is so good I could sell it in an obnoxious prism shape.

I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.

God didn't have time to make a nobody, only a somebody.I believe that each of us has God-given talents within us waiting to be brought to fruition.

Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment.

It doesn't matter how rich you are - you know when you're being ripped off.

I would rather stare at the wall for half an hour than watch an episode of any of the 53,801 Australian soap operas now cluttering up UK TV.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

Learning to love yourself, is the greatest love all