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

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.

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

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.

I have forgotten all about my school days. I have a vague impression that they were detestable.

The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'.

It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.

The world is aware how jealously the Jewish community guards the Holocaust, both as a memory and a weapon.

Witness your thoughts, moods, and behaviors. They represent your memories of the past, and by witnessing them in the present, you liberate yourself from the past.

I'm getting rid of the carried interest provision.

Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes

Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent

It is strange to have everybody in the world still think of you as a child.

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.