When you think that it's too hard, remember that in the long run, doing the things that will make you successful is a lot easier than being unsuccessful

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.

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.

He's a really nice guy, if only I weren't me.

Right now, the leadership in Iran is telling their citizens one thing. Our President is telling us another.

I like for people to figure things out for themselves. It's not like I have the right answer, but if I have a visceral reaction to something, I'm sure that other people will, too.

The United States and rich countries cannot change Africa from within. It has to impose reform on Africa; it has to come from within.

Spaying is a compromise in terms of reverence for life, but perhaps a necessary one in a society which kills millions of dogs and cats a year in "animal shelters".

An ambitious and beautifully produced fever dream. Don't wake me up, I want to stay in.

You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.

Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.