Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.

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.

Whoever falls from God's right hand is caught into His left.

I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.

If you look up and no one who's around you has been around you for the past 20 years, and they're all new people, I think that's a problem.

A level of no more than 350 ppm is still feasible, with the help of reforestation and improved agricultural practices, but just barely - time is running out.

For those of you who worry that I am a skinhead and anything that goes along with that, I am not.

I prefer the "tackiest" person in the world to the stylish person who has no tact.

Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings.

Retail is selling things that don't come back to customers who do.

I hate trends, but I love fashion.

None of Ho Chi Minh's colleagues was as dedicated to the use of political struggle, psychological warfare, and diplomatic means as he was.