What you withhold in this life will be withheld from you in the next.

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.

You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

I'm beginning to wonder when the Doomsday Clock will be reset to five minutes before 1939?

I can watch a movie about a person that can make me feel depressed or remind me of something else, and then later on I'll get an idea for a song.

The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city.

Everything you and I will ever have will come to us as the result of the way we use our minds, the one thing we possess that makes us different from all other creatures.

The pro-Israel lobby has been remarkably successful in suppressing criticism. Politicians challenge it at their peril because of the lobby's ability to influence political contributions.

I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.

I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.

I'm a drugstore beauty girl, I love going to the drugstore and buying makeup.

Progress changes consciousness, and when people's consciousness changes, then their awareness of what is possible changes as well - a virtuous circle.