Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.

More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don't is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively

Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.

Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.

There is nothing to fear from truth....Being truthful is essential to being an independent thinker and obtaining greater understanding of what is right.

To be successful, we need everyone to think independently and work through disagreement to decide what's best.

Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I've had.

Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.

If you don't own Gold, you know neither history nor economics.

The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you'll be.

To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble.

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the up button.

Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.

First character, then ability.

Like the number nineeternity is forever mine

I don't have talent, I have tenacity.

If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it.

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.

My goal is that when the last song is over, and you're walking back to the parking lot, you're already on your phone searching to find the next show.

[In the late 80's] that's the first time I heard about that astonishing idea [that most photographs would be taken on telephones]. And now I've been watching the tsunami of images.