You don’t have to keep living in a dystopia simply because you’re strong and noble enough to accept it.

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.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.

... modern life is no longer thinkable without photography.

Sometimes I want to go into Saturday Night Live and rewrite some of the sketches because they're really not that good.

We can know ourselves only because we can remember.

Having a separate bathroom for the black domestic was just the way things were done. It had faded out in new homes by the time the '70s and '80s rolled up.

What the ego doesn't want us to see is that our pain doesn't come from the love we weren't given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren't giving in the present.

Never miss a moment to encourage someone you work with.