Sometimes you just have to know when the battle you’re fighting is one best walked away from, than fought to the cold, bitter end.

People fear what they do not understand.

Always hear others out and remain open-minded the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn.

The more a mind thinks upon something, the deeper it will take root and affect all subsequent and related thought.

Most physical battles begin once mental ones have been lost, anyway. Conquer the mind, conquer the body.

The mind thinks upon, processes, and remembers what the senses forget.

The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams.

Like tiny gods, all that we say and do holds a power so great that any one of us in any given moment can be responsible for the birth of a new civilization or the collapse of our own.

No army is comprised of all the same kinds of units or types of troops. There is power in diversity. If you always see only one choice, or use only one option, you will surely lose more than you win.

Always think at least two steps ahead [in everything, with everyone].

[Everything you write is] not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient's emotions be the gondola, and your words, its gondolier.

What was it like to lose him?" Asked Sorrow. There was a long pause before I responded:It was like hearing every goodbye ever said tome—said all at once.

If poetry dies, nothing lives !

Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.

I think it's fair to say that my temperament is steady - and on the buoyant side.

You have to have a business model you believe in and like.

Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.

My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.

I know about investment. It's really obvious - you buy property, let it sit for a couple of years and then sell it and reinvest.

A Separation Cosmology produces a Separation Psychology, a psychological viewpoint that says that I am over here and you are over there.

Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption.