To test if you are worrying too much about looking good, observe how you feel when you find out you've made a mistake or don't know something.

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.

It wasn't a glorious or grand act of misadventure but it was a start. It wasn't what I should have done but it was what I truly wanted to do.

Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.

Where human knowledge ends the imagined God begins.

Each of us is a story, waiting for a devoted reader who will take us off the shelf and embrace all our plot twists.

No demon could ever care enough to let go." ~ Muse

If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.

There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix

For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

It takes more than a great church to reach a city, it takes a great movement of churches.